ItemDecoration Advanced Usage and Customization

This lesson will show how to use a 3rd party library to implement dividers in your lists. This video will highlight some important aspects of using ItemDecoration.

Lesson Objectives

• Implement a 3rd party library for ItemDecoration, instead of using custom code
• Show ability to place multiple ItemDecorations on a single RecyclerView at the same time
• Add and Remove ItemDecoration while the app is running (not just when initializing the RecyclerView).

Library Implemented

There are a few different libraries for this, I liked "SimpleItemDecoration" , in particular there is a great write-up explaining implementation details of this library, which is worth reading.

Android References

RecyclerView.ItemDecoration