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Android Android Lists and Adapters (2015) Lists with RecyclerViews Adding Methods for a RecyclerView Adapter

Saumitra Mehrotra
Saumitra Mehrotra
250 Points
Posted by Saumitra Mehrotra
Saumitra Mehrotra
250 Points

How do we cover up the situation when there is no data using Recycler view?

Like in List View, we added a textView with a unique empty id. How do we do that with recycleView?

1 Answer

Ben Deitch
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Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

Hey Saumitra! One thing you can do is to have another View that you make visible when the RecyclerView is empty, and make invisible (or gone) when the RecyclerView has something in it. Here's a related StackOverflow answer that should be helpful.