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Recycler View Internals — I: Birth Of ViewHolder
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We all have been working with RecyclerViews for way long and are very familiar using its API to display our list efficiently, but many have just touched its surface on a very high level, few of us have dug deep into it and tried to figure how internally it works. I’m one of the same, I have a generalised idea of what might be happening but I never looked at its implementation from Android open source project (AOSP) but before I do that I wanted to figure out how others in the community have explored it.
After some poking around I was told by many developers to follow a talk on RecyclerViews ins and outs — Google I/O 2016 for getting an idea of what RecyclerViews are doing under the hood. If you haven’t seen it yet, I would highly recommend you to watch this video, in-fact bookmark it you will be visiting it a lot in your android career.
It actually does a pretty nice job explaining various components of RecyclerView and those diagrams are ❤️ . But that is also the problem with the video, even though there are so many details in the video but everything is just in…
