android - Force RecyclerView to redraw its items

Question

Is there any way to redraw all items of RecyclerView?

I have some Themes (in style.xml) and after changing the theme, I need the RecyclerView to be redrawn.

So I want a method that will force to re-call onCreateViewHolder for each items of the adapter.

I tried to:

• call adapter.notifyDataSetChanged but onCreateViewHolder is not called
• call recyclerView.setVisibility(View.GONE) and then recyclerView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE)
• call recyclerView.invalidate()
• call recyclerView.setAdapter(null) and then recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter).
  This works well for 90% items. Only 90% of items will get the new style, but some items will have the old style

I mention that the RecyclerView is attached to an Activity, not to a Fragment.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36495009/force-recyclerview-to-redraw-its-items

Answer 1

I found the answer! The correct way to do this is:

recyclerView.setAdapter(null);
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(null);
recyclerView.setAdapter(myAdapter);
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(myLayoutManager);
myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

After that, all the items are getting the new style!