The RecyclerView You Know in Jetpack Compose

CanopasCanopas
2 min read

Jetpack Compose revolutionizes Android UI development, offering a declarative approach that empowers developers to create elegant and efficient interfaces with minimal code.

Yet, performance challenges arise with built-in LazyLists when handling extensive data lists.

So, Today we’ll delve into the implementation of ComposeRecyclerView, exploring its architecture, essential components, and inner workings.

ComposeRecycleView Composable

The RecycleView Composable function server is the backbone of the composeRecycleView library, Facilitating the creation of RecycleView with dynamically generated compose items.

Table of content

  • Background

  • Advantages of ComposeRecyclerView

  • Key features

  • Introduction

  • Architecture overview

  • ComposeRecyclerView composable

    • Parameters

    • Remember state

    • LayoutManager initialization

    • Adapter initialization

    • RecyclerView creation

    • ItemTouchHelper initialization

    • AndroidView integration

    • DisposableEffect for state preservation

  • ComposeRecyclerViewAdapter

  • ItemTouchHelperConfig

  • Get started with ComposeRecyclerView

  • Conclusion

Advantages of ComposeRecycleView

  • Improved performance — Ensure a smooth and responsive user experience, even with large datasets, effectively addressing LazyList performance Concerns.

  • Drag-to-reorder support — This feature allows users to rearrange items or elements by dragging and dropping them into new positions.

  • Customization — Offer extensive options for tailoring RecylerView behavior, Providing complete control from layout orientation to item touch handling.

  • InfiniteScrollListener — Detect when users reach the list’s end during scrolling, facilitating manual pagination and additional data loading.

  • Seamless integration — Effortlessly integrating RecylerView into Jetpack Compose apps.

Key Feature

  • Efficient item generation

  • Flexible item builder

  • Direct RecycleView exposure

  • Infinite scrolling support

ComposeRecyleView emerges as a powerful solution, delivering heightened performance, drag-to-reorder functionality, and effortless interpretation with Jetpack Compose.

For a deeper exploration of the implementation Details of each parameter and callback and access to code snippets, head over to Canopas Blog.

Follow Canopas for our latest technical blog posts!

0
Subscribe to my newsletter

Read articles from Canopas directly inside your inbox. Subscribe to the newsletter, and don't miss out.

Written by

Canopas
Canopas

Unless you’re a Multimillion or a Billion dollar company, you probably don’t have a multimillion-dollar ad budget or professional Spinners. Your product needs to stand out on its own merits like App Quality, Performance, UI design, and User Experience. Most companies don't care about you, your product, and your vision or dreams. They don't give a damn about either their work helped you to get more business, revenue, users, or solving a problem. That's where CANOPAS comes into the picture. Whether you have a GREAT IDEA and you want to turn it into a DIGITAL PRODUCT. OR You need a team that can turn your NIGHTMARES into SWEET DREAMS again by improving your existing product. We help Entrepreneurs, startups, and small companies to bring their IDEA to LIFE by developing digital products for their business. We prefer using Agile and Scrum principles in project management for flexibility and rapid review cycles. We are not bound by technology. We will learn new technology if it significantly improves the performance of your app. We will solve your tech-related problems even though we are not THE EXPERT in it. And we've done it multiple times in the last 7 years. In the last seven years, we helped... A STARTUP to expand its users from 2500 to over 100000 by developing mobile apps for them. An enterprise client to redevelop their app that has 1M+ monthly paid users and 10M+ app downloads. Another enterprise client(5M+ app downloads in each store) to fix bugs and broken parts in the app and as a result, they had over 98% crash-free users. We offer a 100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE if you don't like our work. No questions asked. Visit : https://canopas.com/blog