Swipe to Dismiss for RecyclerView [closed]

As of v22.2.0, the Android support team has included an ItemTouchHelper class that makes swipe-to-dismiss and drag-and-drop pretty simple. This may not be as full-featured as some of the libraries out there, but it comes directly from the Android team.

  • Update your build.gradle to import v22.2.+ of the RecyclerView library

    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:22.2.+'
    
  • Instantiate an ItemTouchHelper with an appropriate SimpleCallback

    ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback simpleItemTouchCallback = new ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback(0, ItemTouchHelper.LEFT | ItemTouchHelper.RIGHT) {
        [...]
        @Override
        public void onSwiped(RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, int swipeDir) {
            //Remove swiped item from list and notify the RecyclerView
        }
    };
    
    ItemTouchHelper itemTouchHelper = new ItemTouchHelper(simpleItemTouchCallback);
    

    ** Note that the SimpleCallback takes in the directions that you want to enable drag-and-drop and the directions that you want to enable swiping.

  • Attach to your RecyclerView

    itemTouchHelper.attachToRecyclerView(recyclerView);
    

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