android - RecyclerView crashes when "scrapped or attached views may not be recycled"

Question

I'm using a simple implementation of RecyclerView taken from the Android website using a StaggeredGridLayoutManager and I keep getting this error that crashes my app:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Scrapped or attached views may not be recycled. isScrap:false isAttached:true
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.recycleViewHolderInternal(RecyclerView.java:3501)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$LayoutManager.scrapOrRecycleView(RecyclerView.java:5355)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$LayoutManager.detachAndScrapAttachedViews(RecyclerView.java:5340)
            at android.support.v7.widget.StaggeredGridLayoutManager.onLayoutChildren(StaggeredGridLayoutManager.java:572)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayout(RecyclerView.java:1918)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.onLayout(RecyclerView.java:2155)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onLayout(RelativeLayout.java:1021)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:448)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:448)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.support.v7.internal.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout.onLayout(ActionBarOverlayLayout.java:502)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:448)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1663)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1521)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1434)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:448)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:14008)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4373)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:1892)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1711)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:989)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:4351)
            at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:749)
            at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:562)
            at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:532)
            at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:735)
            at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:725)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
            at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)  

By simple, I literally mean it's the same implementation taken from this page on their website, the only difference being is that my grid item's layout is an ImageView and a couple of TextViews, so I won't bother reposting my code.

Anyone else getting this error and know how to deal with it?

Answer 1

This error is caused if in your XML you have android:animateLayoutChanges set to true and you call notifyDataSetChanged() on the RecyclerView's adapter in the Java code.

So, just avoid using android:animateLayoutChanges with RecyclerViews.