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Handling Click Events In RecyclerView

  • aster.cloud
  • January 12, 2021
  • 2 minute read

This is the third in a series of articles which cover the fundamentals of creating and using RecyclerView. If you already have a solid understanding of how to create a RecyclerView, then carry on. Otherwise, consider starting with this post.

When displaying a list of data with RecyclerView, you may want to have a response when an item is clicked. This response could open a new page with more data, present a toast, remove an item, etc. The possibilities are endless but they are all done using onClick().


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Defining the click action

Before creating the listener, create a function in the Activity class that performs the action to be done upon click.

<!-- Copyright 2019 Google LLC. 
   SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 -->

private fun adapterOnClick(flower: Flower) {
   val intent = Intent(this, FlowerDetailActivity()::class.java)
   intent.putExtra(FLOWER_ID, flower.id)
   this.startActivity(intent)
}

Next, update the Adapter’s constructor to take in the onClick() function.

<!-- Copyright 2019 Google LLC. 
   SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 -->

class FlowersAdapter(private val onClick: (Flower) -> Unit) :
  ListAdapter<Flower, RecyclerView.ViewHolder>(FlowerDiffCallback())

In the Activity class, pass in the newly created function when you initialize the Adapter.

<!-- Copyright 2019 Google LLC. 
   SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 -->

val flowersAdapter = FlowersAdapter { flower ->
  adapterOnClick(flower)
}

Adding the onClickHandler()

Now that the action is defined, it is time to attach it to the ViewHolder in the Adapter.

Update the ViewHolder to take in onClick() as a parameter.

<!-- Copyright 2019 Google LLC. 
   SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 -->

class FlowerViewHolder(itemView: View, val onClick: (Flower) -> Unit) :
  RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView)

In the initializer, call setOnClickListener{} on the itemView.

<!-- Copyright 2019 Google LLC. 
   SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 -->

init {
   itemView.setOnClickListener {
      currentFlower?.let {
         onClick(it)
      }
   }
}

That’s it! Your RecyclerView is now responsive so time to get your click on!

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Happy coding!

Next Steps

The full code sample including onClick() can be found here.

Thank you for reading the third installment in my RecyclerView series! Stay tuned as I write about more RecyclerView features.

If you want to learn more about onClick() check out the documentation.

Source Medium by Meghan Mehta


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