BaseRecyclerAdapter | recyclerView common adapter | RecyclerView library

What I wanted: I needed Model to be passed to Layout, obviously We needed to use its properties to bind. This is why I thought of making BaseViewHolder a generic class.

Actual Problem: You cannot get Class of Generic Class. Means, I cannot initialise BaseRecyclerAdapter as below:

This is because of how RecyclerView works. It recycles your view after it disappears from your screen. If you want to maintain the state of a view, you could keep track of it in a List. Example code for in your adapter:

The problem is here:

The question is, is it safe to return position in getItemViewType in this case? Or the recyclerView will create new views and will not recycle already created?

No, it is not "safe" to return the position from getItemViewType(), and your suspicion is correct: since the View type indicates whether an existing View can be recycled for a new data item which needs the same View type, an approach where each item has its unique View type will completely prevent recycling of Views.

In the documentation for getItemViewType() , it says

Consider using id resources to uniquely identify item view types

Maybe this is a good idea for you: you already have this line in onCreateViewHolder()

int viewType = getItem(position).getLayoutId();

So you can move it to getItemViewType()

You should first create your request String using for loop and then send it in your request. You should do something like this.