How to disable RecyclerView scrolling?

Question

I cannot disable scrolling in the RecyclerView. I tried calling rv.setEnabled(false) but I can still scroll.

How can I disable scrolling?

Meteoritics

What is the point of using RecyclerView if you do not want scrolling? – Paulinepauling

@CommonsWare, I just want to disable it temporarily, for instance, while I'm doing a custom animation with one of its children. – Meteoritics

Ah, OK, that makes sense. I'd've probably put a transparent View over top of the RecyclerView, toggling between VISIBLE and GONE as needed, but off the cuff your approach seems reasonable. – Paulinepauling

Hope this helps find a better solution. – Indecorum

@CommonsWare, here's what I need it for, for example. I need to display images in RecyclerView one at a time, without partially visible images, only one in my viewport. And there are arrows on the left and on the right which user can navigate with. Depending on what image is currently displayed (they are of various types), some things outside RecyclerView are triggered. It's the design our customers want. – Redwood

@Paulinepauling I need to disable scrolling to also have up/down swipe directions. I use grid layout, not a list, and the items are all sized such that they are visible on the screen. – Anthesis

Id I want to dynamically displaying all items of the recycle view under a big scrollview, then disabling the scrolling is helpful . – Cerous

IMO there is a lot of use in using a RecyclerView without scroll. Maybe this is just me but the RecyclerView adapter offers a simple way to dynamically inflate different types of views with memory efficiency. I do have a custom LinearLayout , but it requires a lot more code to handle lifecycles, viewTypes, items ID's and ListDIffer adapters... with custom animations...etc... Also a list is almost always accompanied by a header with titles and menus, etc.. and all of those items are most certainly part of the List in a bigger scrollable view. – Jetliner

Answer 1

You should override the layoutManager of your recycleView for this. This way it will only disable scrolling, none of the other functionalities. You will still be able to handle click or any other touch events. For example:-

Original:

public class CustomGridLayoutManager extends LinearLayoutManager {
    private boolean isScrollEnabled = true;

    public CustomGridLayoutManager(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public void setScrollEnabled(boolean flag) {
        this.isScrollEnabled = flag;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canScrollVertically() {
        //Similarly you can customize "canScrollHorizontally()" for managing horizontal scroll
        return isScrollEnabled && super.canScrollVertically();
    }
}

Here using "isScrollEnabled" flag you can enable/disable scrolling functionality of your recycle-view temporarily.

Also:

Simple override your existing implementation to disable scrolling and allow clicking.

linearLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(context) {
    @Override
    public boolean canScrollVertically() {
        return false;
    }
};

In Kotlin:

object : LinearLayoutManager(this) { override fun canScrollVertically() = false }

Consumptive

This should be the correct answer as it disables scrolling while allowing me to click. – Stercoraceous

Disabling scrolling on the default LayoutMangers should already exist, a user of the API should not have to do this. Thanks for the answer though! – Wickerwork

i changed this to extend gridlayout it works but when i lock the scroll it jumps to the top – Ahab

What if I want to disable scrolling only from a certain item ? Meaning you can scroll down (or up) to it, but then get blocked, till I re-enable it again? – Terrenceterrene

This also disables smoothScrollToPosition – Scoggins

you add kotlin version object :LinearLayoutManager(this){ override fun canScrollVertically(): Boolean { return false } } – Saporific

Can you please describe fully the Kotlin way of overriding the layout manager? – Marismarisa

how to disable scrolling for gridlayout manager? – Pontus

Is it possible to disable scrolling while keeping the LinearLayout height at maximum? – Kisor

Answer 2

The real answer is

recyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

More info in documentation

Isabelisabelita

This will only disable nested scrolling, not all scrolling. In particular, if your RecyclerView is in a ScrollView but does not fill the screen, the ScrollView will not scroll (content fits in screen), and you will get the scroll UI in your RecyclerView (end of list effect when trying to scroll for example) even though it will not scroll when it gets bigger. Extending the LayoutManager really does the job. – Oram

@Oram I believe recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true) does the job for that. Edit: I also use this in conjuction with setFillViewport(true) so I'm not actually sure which one of the two fixes it. – Variola

This works fine for me, but my "RecyclerView" was inside a Fragment layout using "ScrollView", so I had to change the "ScrollView" by "NestedScrollView", as described here: https://mcmap.net/q/100963/-recyclerview-inside-scrollview-some-items-are-not-shown – Caddis

Remember to use the full class name for NestedScrollView: android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView, as described here, by chessdork: #37846745 – Tune

After spending 4 hours to trying to figure out what is wrong this solved my issue. In my case I am using a recyclerview inside of a MotionLayout. And I only added a swipe area to drag up by adding motion:touchAnchorId="@id/swipe_area". It works normally but also triggered when touched recyclerview's empty areas. Be careful when using motionLayout with other swipable elements. – Shanon

This is the best answer for my case, the LinearLayoutManager.canScrollVertically() do not work same way as this. This method dispatched touch event to it parent view to handle. – Driveway

Answer 3

For API 21 and above:

No java code needed. You can set android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false" in xml:

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
     android:id="@+id/recycler"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:clipToPadding="true"
     android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
     tools:listitem="@layout/adapter_favorite_place">

Pretzel

I think this should be the accepted answer, without any effort in class you can disable the scrolling and yet the touch is allowed in the layout. – Ratty

What for APIs below 21 ?? – Burgener

@pic for lower APIs you can use : recyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false); – Pretzel

Accepted answer for me. – Ale

You should also highlight the caveats associated with your answer. android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false" will make the onBindViewHolder called for all the items at once and the items will not get recycled which is not good if the data is large. – Madel

this is the best and most straightforward answer, which also avoids unnecessary code pollution, and endless class extending patterns. – Restaurateur

Well, this doesn't work. I guess this only works for nested views. But recyclerview itself is still scrollable. – Apples

Answer 4

This a bit hackish workaround but it works; you can enable/disable scrolling in the RecyclerView.

This is an empty RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener stealing every touch event thus disabling the target RecyclerView.

public class RecyclerViewDisabler implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener {

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept) {

    }
}

Using it:

RecyclerView rv = ...
RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener disabler = new RecyclerViewDisabler();

rv.addOnItemTouchListener(disabler);        // disables scolling
// do stuff while scrolling is disabled
rv.removeOnItemTouchListener(disabler);     // scrolling is enabled again 

Meteoritics

Does this disable the item clicking too? – Snowwhite

@JahirFiquitiva Yes. "This is an empty RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener stealing every touch event" – Cornish

this also disables parent view's scroll as well – Debbi

This disables item click too – Seclude

Why use a hackish workaround (with side effects) when there is a clean solution ? Just override the LayoutManager (see other answers) – Oram

@Oram I chose this solution over the accepted answer because it only blocks inputs from the user, and still allows me to call the smoothScrollBy() method. So I can disable user scrolling, run some animations in the recyclerview, and re-enable it afterwards. – Fallingout

Instead of returning true, and therefore disabling all sorts of touch events, just return e.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE; instead of return true; so only scroll/swipe events get cancelled. – Kismet

It might be hackish, but if the reason you want to disable the scroll was due to interfactions an onTouch handler to begin with, it's the right solution. – Ketti

Answer 5

This works for me:

  recyclerView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
      @Override
      public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
          return true;
      }
  });

Countercurrent

This disables all touch. – Stercoraceous

Nice trick! To re-enable again, just re-set the onTouchListener's onTouch to return false – Adductor

uhm, but there is a warning Custom view 'RecyclerView' has setOnTouchListener called on it but does not override performClick – Adductor

If you are receiving the same warning that @Adductor mentioned in the comment above then take a look at this question's answers: #46135749 – Durazzo

Instead of returning true, and therefore disabling all sorts of touch events, just return e.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE; instead of return true; so only scroll/swipe events get cancelled. – Kismet

Kotlin short version products_carousel.setOnTouchListener { _, _ -> true} – Harslet

Answer 6

As setLayoutFrozen is deprecated, You can disable scrolling by freezing your RecyclerView by using suppressLayout.

To freeze:

recyclerView.suppressLayout(true)

To unfreeze:

recyclerView.suppressLayout(false)

Taco

This suppress animation of RecycleView itself as well and other stuff which is not acceptable if taking about only disable scroll – Harslet

Working fine till date – Isaak

Answer 7

recyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(new RecyclerView.SimpleOnItemTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
            // Stop only scrolling.
            return rv.getScrollState() == RecyclerView.SCROLL_STATE_DRAGGING;
        }
    });

Wane

This aborts scrolling of smoothScrollToPosition() when touched. – Radium

This is the best solution for me because it allows scrolling programatically but avoids user scrolling. – Jotter

This is the best solution! thumbs up! – Poitiers

Thank you, that's what I was looking for. And other one can also adjust the condition so user scrolling is prevented at some times and not others (which is exactly what I need). – Ketti

Answer 8

You can disable scrolling by freezing your RecyclerView.

To freeze: recyclerView.setLayoutFrozen(true)

To unfreeze: recyclerView.setLayoutFrozen(false)

Everyone

Take a note: child views are not updated when RecyclerView is frozen. I need to disable scroll when there's enough room on the screen to show all items. Oh... What a nice Android API for this task... – Hehre

Deprecated in API 28 – Vada

Its been replace with suppressLayout, but not does a lot more than prevent scrolling. I need to suppress the scrolling from user interaction, but I need it to scroll programmatically, and make other changes this prevents. It's the right solution for some situations, but not others. – Ketti

Answer 9

In Kotlin, if you don't want to create an extra class just for setting one value, you can create anonymous class from LayoutManager:

recyclerView.layoutManager = object : LinearLayoutManager(context) {
    override fun canScrollVertically(): Boolean = false
}

Clein

Answer 10

There is a simple answer.

LinearLayoutManager lm = new LinearLayoutManager(getContext()) {
                @Override
                public boolean canScrollVertically() {
                    return false;
                }
            };

The above code disables RecyclerView's verticall scrolling.

Chisolm

Answer 11

Create class which extend RecyclerView class

public class NonScrollRecyclerView extends RecyclerView {

    public NonScrollRecyclerView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public NonScrollRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public NonScrollRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        int heightMeasureSpec_custom = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(
                Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec_custom);
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
        params.height = getMeasuredHeight();
    }
}

This will disable the scroll event, but not the click events

Use this in your XML do the following:

  <com.yourpackage.xyx.NonScrollRecyclerView 
     ...
     ... 
  />

Axiology

Thanks! This all is needed when we want to allow recycler view to take full height according to contents without internal scrolling. :) – Block

But if this recycler view is in a scrolling view (e.g.ScrollView) then the layout manager should override canScrollVertically() method returning false from it. – Block

@RahulRastogi use NestedScrollView instead of ScrollView – Axiology

Hey @AshishMangave , Please tell how to enable it again programmatically – Curley

@Curley we can’t do this programatically. bcz we directly override recyclerview ’s onMeasure method.you can try for this recyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false) .this will help you – Axiology

@Ashish, This is for stop vertical scroll, please tell me how to stop horizontal scroll – Curley

Answer 12

If you just disable only scroll functionality of RecyclerView then you can use setLayoutFrozen(true); method of RecyclerView. But it can not be disable touch event.

your_recyclerView.setLayoutFrozen(true);

Scarcity

this method is deprecated. can you suggest another one? – Dowden

Deprecated in API 28 – Vada

For deprecation, use suppressLayout(true) instead – Hellgrammite

Answer 13

Wrote a kotlin version:

class NoScrollLinearLayoutManager(context: Context?) : LinearLayoutManager(context) {
    private var scrollable = true

    fun enableScrolling() {
        scrollable = true
    }

    fun disableScrolling() {
        scrollable = false
    }

    override fun canScrollVertically() =
            super.canScrollVertically() && scrollable


    override fun canScrollHorizontally() =
            super.canScrollVertically()

 && scrollable
}

usage:

recyclerView.layoutManager = NoScrollLinearLayoutManager(context)
(recyclerView.layoutManager as NoScrollLinearLayoutManager).disableScrolling()

Enteric

Answer 14

in XML :-

You can add

android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"

in the child RecyclerView layout XML file

or

in Java :-

childRecyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);

to your RecyclerView in Java code.

Using ViewCompat (Java) :-

childRecyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false); will work only in android_version>21 devices. to work in all devices use the following

ViewCompat.setNestedScrollingEnabled(childRecyclerView, false);

Typewrite

Excelent, all apis covered, should be powered up. – Beer

Answer 15

Another alternative is setLayoutFrozen, but it comes with a bunch of other side effects.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.html#setLayoutFrozen(boolean)

Extinguisher

Answer 16

Extend the LayoutManager and override canScrollHorizontally()and canScrollVertically() to disable scrolling.

Be aware that inserting items at the beginning will not automatically scroll back to the beginning, to get around this do something like:

  private void clampRecyclerViewScroll(final RecyclerView recyclerView)
  {
    recyclerView.getAdapter().registerAdapterDataObserver(new RecyclerView.AdapterDataObserver()
    {
      @Override
      public void onItemRangeInserted(int positionStart, int itemCount)
      {
        super.onItemRangeInserted(positionStart, itemCount);
        // maintain scroll position at top
        if (positionStart == 0)
        {
          RecyclerView.LayoutManager layoutManager = recyclerView.getLayoutManager();
          if (layoutManager instanceof GridLayoutManager)
          {
            ((GridLayoutManager) layoutManager).scrollToPositionWithOffset(0, 0);
          }else if(layoutManager instanceof LinearLayoutManager)
          {
            ((LinearLayoutManager) layoutManager).scrollToPositionWithOffset(0, 0);
          }
        }
      }
    });
  }

Forelimb

this disables also smoothScrollToPosition – Scoggins

Answer 17

I know this already has an accepted answer, but the solution doesn't take into account a use-case that I came across.

I specifically needed a header item that was still clickable, yet disabled the scrolling mechanism of the RecyclerView. This can be accomplished with the following code:

recyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(new RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener() {
                            @Override
     public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
         return e.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE;
     }

     @Override
     public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {

     }

     @Override
     public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept) {

    }
});

Kolk

For some reason, you have to click just right, without moving for this to work. – Stercoraceous

Good point, @JaredBurrows. This is because we're disregarding ACTION_MOVE. For touch to feel natural, there's some give between touching, and slight movement on the screen. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to solve for that problem. – Kolk

Thanks, exactly what I needed! – Starstarboard

Answer 18

You should just add this line:

recyclerView.suppressLayout(true)

Godolphin

Tells the RecyclerView to suppress all layout and scroll calls until layout suppression is disabled. refer to docs – Garniture

Answer 19

For some reason @Alejandro Gracia answer starts working only after a few second. I found a solution that blocks the RecyclerView instantaneously:

recyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(new RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
                return true;
            }
            @Override
            public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
            }
            @Override
            public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept) {
            }
        });

Gastrocnemius

Answer 20

Override onTouchEvent() and onInterceptTouchEvent() and return false if you don't need OnItemTouchListener at all. This does not disable OnClickListeners of ViewHolders.

public class ScrollDisabledRecyclerView extends RecyclerView {
    public ScrollDisabledRecyclerView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public ScrollDisabledRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public ScrollDisabledRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
        return false;
    }
}

Radium

Answer 21

Just add this to your recycleview in xml

 android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"

like this

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                    android:background="#ffffff"
                    android:id="@+id/myrecycle"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false">

Geordie

awesome solution – Gouache

Answer 22

Add

android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"

in your child of SrollView or NestedScrollView (and parent of ListView, recyclerview and gridview any one)

Unwearied

Answer 23

There is a more straightforward way to disable scrolling (technically it is more rather interception of a scrolling event and ending it when a condition is met), using just standard functionality. RecyclerView has the method called addOnScrollListener(OnScrollListener listener), and using just this you can stop it from scrolling, just so:

recyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
    @Override
    public void onScrollStateChanged(RecyclerView recyclerView, int newState) {
        super.onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView, newState);
        if (viewModel.isItemSelected) {
            recyclerView.stopScroll();
        }
    }
});

Use case: Let's say that you want to disable scrolling when you click on one of the items within RecyclerView so you could perform some actions with it, without being distracted by accidentally scrolling to another item, and when you are done with it, just click on the item again to enable scrolling. For that, you would want to attach OnClickListener to every item within RecyclerView, so when you click on an item, it would toggle isItemSelected from false to true. This way when you try to scroll, RecyclerView will automatically call method onScrollStateChanged and since isItemSelected set to true, it will stop immediately, before RecyclerView got the chance, well... to scroll.

Note: for better usability, try to use GestureListener instead of OnClickListener to prevent accidental clicks.

Fleam

stopScroll() is not to freeze the scroll, it's just to halt/stop scrolling recyclerview. – Prescriptible

@FARID, yes, this method just stops any scroll in progress, and in this particular case, it does that every time when a user tries to scroll RecyclerView content with isItemSelected set to true. Otherwise, you would need a custom RecyclerView to disable scrolling for good and I wanted to avoid it since I needed just a little extra functionality, which this solution provides. – Fleam

Answer 24

I have been struggling in this issue for some hour, So I would like to share my experience, For the layoutManager solution it is fine but if u want to reEnable scrolling the recycler will back to top.

The best solution so far (for me at least) is using @Zsolt Safrany methode but adding getter and setter so you don't have to remove or add the OnItemTouchListener.

As follow

public class RecyclerViewDisabler implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener {

    boolean isEnable = true;

    public RecyclerViewDisabler(boolean isEnable) {
        this.isEnable = isEnable;
    }

    public boolean isEnable() {
        return isEnable;
    }

    public void setEnable(boolean enable) {
        isEnable = enable;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
        return !isEnable;
    }

    @Override
    public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {}

   @Override
   public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept){}
 }

Usage

RecyclerViewDisabler disabler = new RecyclerViewDisabler(true);
feedsRecycler.addOnItemTouchListener(disabler);

// TO ENABLE/DISABLE JUST USE THIS
disabler.setEnable(enable);

Borreri

Answer 25

You can add this line after setting your adapter

ViewCompat.setNestedScrollingEnabled(recyclerView, false);

Now your recyclerview will work with smooth scrolling

Marshland

Answer 26

For whom want's to just prevent the user to scroll the RecyclerView, without loose the smoothScrollToPosition or any other "go to position" method, I'd recommend rather extending the RecyclerView class, overriding the onTouchEvent. Like this:

            public class HardwareButtonsRecyclerView extends RecyclerView {
            
                    public HardwareButtonsRecyclerView(@NonNull Context context) {
                        super(context);
                    }
            
                    public HardwareButtonsRecyclerView(@NonNull Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
                        super(context, attrs);
                    }
            
                    public HardwareButtonsRecyclerView(@NonNull Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
                        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
                    }
            
                @Override
                public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
                    return false;
                }
            }

Bildungsroman

Answer 27

At activity's onCreate method, you can simply do:

recyclerView.stopScroll()

and it stops scrolling.

Bibeau

Answer 28

Here is how I did it with data binding:

            <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                android:id="@+id/recycler_view"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:clipChildren="false"
                android:onTouch="@{(v,e) -> true}"/>

In place of the "true" I used a boolean variable that changed based on a condition so that the recycler view would switch between being disabled and enabled.

Iconoduly

Answer 29

Came across with a fragment that contains multiple RecycleView so I only need one scrollbar instead of one scrollbar in each RecycleView.

So I just put the ScrollView in the parent container that contains the 2 RecycleViews and use android:isScrollContainer="false" in the RecycleView

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:layoutManager="LinearLayoutManager"
    android:isScrollContainer="false" />

Hurst

Answer 30

For stop scrolling by touch but keep scrolling via commands :

if (appTopBarMessagesRV == null) { appTopBarMessagesRV = findViewById(R.id.mainBarScrollMessagesRV);

        appTopBarMessagesRV.addOnItemTouchListener(new RecyclerView.SimpleOnItemTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {

                if ( rv.getScrollState() == RecyclerView.SCROLL_STATE_DRAGGING)
                {
                     // Stop  scrolling by touch

                    return false;
                }
                return  true;
            }
        });
    }

Sandbag

Answer 31

You can creat a Non Scrollable Recycler View which extends a Recycler View class, as follows:

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;

public class NonScrollRecyclerView extends RecyclerView {

    public NonScrollRecyclerView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public NonScrollRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public NonScrollRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasure, int heightMeasure) {
        int heightMeasureCustom = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(
                Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasure, heightMeasureCustom);
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
        params.height = getMeasuredHeight();
    }
}

Parvati

Answer 32

Summing up answers on this question.

The easiest and the best way to disable scroll of the recyclerView:

yourRecyclerView.layoutmanager = object : LinearLayoutManager(context) {
        override fun canScrollVertically(): Boolean = false
    }

The following solutions works if recyclerView is put inside nestedScrollView:

yourRecyclerView.isNestedScrollingEnabled = false

android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"

android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"

Note: each solution works only if recyclerView is put inside nestedScrollView.

Meet

Answer 33

MAY 2022

This way worked for me after a lot of tries in new versions of android and APIs.

The New Answer With Kotlin

1. create a class called ScrollDisabledRecyclerView and put codes like this:

class ScrollDisabledRecyclerView : RecyclerView {

constructor(context: Context?) : super(context!!)
constructor(context: Context?, @Nullable attrs: AttributeSet?) : super(context!!, attrs)
constructor(context: Context?, @Nullable attrs: AttributeSet?, defStyle: Int) : super(
    context!!,
    attrs,
    defStyle
)

override fun onTouchEvent(e: MotionEvent): Boolean {
    return e.action == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE
}

override fun onInterceptTouchEvent(e: MotionEvent): Boolean {
    return false
}  }

2. use this class in your XML instead of RecyclerView (this class is extended from it):

 <info.sanaebadi.ScrollDisabledRecyclerView

        android:id="@+id/recyclerView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        android:clipToPadding="true"
        tools:listitem="@layout/multiple_questions_row" />

3. and at last, handle the next and previous with buttons in MainActiviy like this:

note: I AM USING ViewBinding

binding.buttonNextQuestion.setOnClickListener {
            val totalItemCount: Int = binding.recyclerView.adapter!!.itemCount
            if (totalItemCount <= 0) return@setOnClickListener
            val lastVisibleItemIndex: Int = linearLayoutManager.findLastVisibleItemPosition()
            if (lastVisibleItemIndex >= totalItemCount) return@setOnClickListener
            linearLayoutManager.smoothScrollToPosition(
                binding.recyclerView,
                null,
                lastVisibleItemIndex + 1
            )

        }
        binding.buttonPreviousQuestion.setOnClickListener {
            val firstVisibleItemIndex: Int =
                linearLayoutManager.findFirstCompletelyVisibleItemPosition()
            if (firstVisibleItemIndex > 0) {
                linearLayoutManager.smoothScrollToPosition(
                    binding.recyclerView,
                    null,
                    firstVisibleItemIndex - 1
                )
            }
        }

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Answer 34

Now the set recyclerView.setLayoutFrozen(true); // for disabling scrolling of recycler view is deprecated use recyclerView.suppressLayout(true)

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