This library is DEPRECATED and not recommended for utilization, as it uses very old versions of Rx and Gradle. However, I am leaving it here so that you might be able to draw on some of the concepts if you're implementing your own version, or for you to freely fork and modify / update.

Known issues:

The gradle version / bintray version are super duper old. Please remove any references to bintray if you clone this yourself, or update them as necessary.

Crazy easy to use RecyclerView Adapter for Reactive Applications

• RxRecyclerViewAdapter::onCreateViewHolder is the same as RecyclerView.Adapter
• RxRecyclerViewAdapter::onBindViewHolder gives you the Element you are binding to
• RxRecyclerViewAdapter::preProcessElement gives you the chance to work with elements before they enter the underlying tree set.
• RxRecyclerViewAdapter::postProcessElement gives you the chance to work with elements after the RecyclerView has been notified of the element.
• Event<K,V> is Immutable and takes an Event.TYPE, Key, and Value.
• Event<K,V> also contains an UNKNOWN type and is overridable for custom processing.
• EventElement<K,V> and it's subclasses wrap Events and contain a view type for easy addition of headers, footers, and "list is empty" view.

You need to have an Observable that you've merged all of your event emitters into. You then need to either map those into EventElements or utilize GroupComparator and it's corresponding Operator via Observable::lift to do the conversion for you.

There is an interface called GroupComparator that lets you sort and group your Events. These are passed to an instance of ElementGenerationOperator which will then add in Header and Footer items, as well as handle Empty items per your provided Options. The Adapter uses a TreeSet internally, which allows for automatic sorting by natural keys (Elements subclass Comparator).

You can create your own new view types by extending the appropriate EventElement subclass, or EventElement itself. Each View type has a corresponding bit mask that are placed in the 11th and 12th bits of the View type integer. This means that when you want to know what kind of view you are looking at, you can simply shift it's view type like so: element.getViewType() >> EventElement.MASK_SHIFT and compare it to the defined static integer masks within EventElement. This allows you to do things like create your own Header elements and whatnot, with unique viewtypes, and rest assured that they'll work properly.

This system allows us to avoid using instanceof calls everywhere, and stick to switch cases.

Are available in the app module!

This work is (C) under the MIT License.

This has been released on Bintray

repositories {
    maven {
        url  "http://dl.bintray.com/exallium/maven" 
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.exallium.rxrecyclerview:lib:2.1.2'
}