RecyclerView – How to smooth scroll to top of item on a certain position?

RecyclerView is designed to be extensible, so there is no need to subclass the LayoutManager (as droidev suggested) just to perform the scrolling.

Instead, just create a SmoothScroller with the preference SNAP_TO_START:

RecyclerView.SmoothScroller smoothScroller = new LinearSmoothScroller(context) {
  @Override protected int getVerticalSnapPreference() {
    return LinearSmoothScroller.SNAP_TO_START;
  }
};

Now you set the position where you want to scroll to:

smoothScroller.setTargetPosition(position);

and pass that SmoothScroller to the LayoutManager:

layoutManager.startSmoothScroll(smoothScroller);

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