How to implement endless list with RecyclerView?

I would like to change ListView to RecyclerView. I want to use the onScroll of the OnScrollListener in RecyclerView to determine if a user scrolled to the end of the list.

How do I know if a user scrolls to the end of the list so that I can fetch new data from a REST service?

Thanks to @Kushal and this is how I implemented it

private boolean loading = true;
int pastVisiblesItems, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;

mRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
        if (dy > 0) { //check for scroll down
            visibleItemCount = mLayoutManager.getChildCount();
            totalItemCount = mLayoutManager.getItemCount();
            pastVisiblesItems = mLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

            if (loading) {
                if ((visibleItemCount + pastVisiblesItems) >= totalItemCount) {
                    loading = false;
                    Log.v("...", "Last Item Wow !");
                    // Do pagination.. i.e. fetch new data

                    loading = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

Don't forget to add

LinearLayoutManager mLayoutManager;
mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);

Make these variables.

private int previousTotal = 0;
private boolean loading = true;
private int visibleThreshold = 5;
int firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;

Set on Scroll for recycler view.

mRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {

    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
        super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

        visibleItemCount = mRecyclerView.getChildCount();
        totalItemCount = mLayoutManager.getItemCount();
        firstVisibleItem = mLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

        if (loading) {
            if (totalItemCount > previousTotal) {
                loading = false;
                previousTotal = totalItemCount;
            }
        }
        if (!loading && (totalItemCount - visibleItemCount) 
            <= (firstVisibleItem + visibleThreshold)) {
            // End has been reached

            Log.i("Yaeye!", "end called");

            // Do something

            loading = true;
        }
    }
});

> Note : Make sure you are using LinearLayoutManager as layout manager for RecyclerView.

LinearLayoutManager mLayoutManager;
mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);

and for a grid

GridLayoutManager mLayoutManager;
mLayoutManager = new GridLayoutManager(getActivity(), spanCount);
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);

Have fun with your endless scrolls !! ^.^

> Update : mRecyclerView.setOnScrollListener() is deprecated just replace with mRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener() and the warning will be gone! You can read more from this SO question.

Since Android now officially support Kotlin, here is an update for the same -

Make OnScrollListener

class OnScrollListener(val layoutManager: LinearLayoutManager, val adapter: RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerAdapter.ViewHolder>, val dataList: MutableList<Int>) : RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
    var previousTotal = 0
    var loading = true
    val visibleThreshold = 10
    var firstVisibleItem = 0
    var visibleItemCount = 0
    var totalItemCount = 0

    override fun onScrolled(recyclerView: RecyclerView, dx: Int, dy: Int) {
        super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy)

        visibleItemCount = recyclerView.childCount
        totalItemCount = layoutManager.itemCount
        firstVisibleItem = layoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition()

        if (loading) {
            if (totalItemCount > previousTotal) {
                loading = false
                previousTotal = totalItemCount
            }
        }

        if (!loading && (totalItemCount - visibleItemCount) <= (firstVisibleItem + visibleThreshold)) {
            val initialSize = dataList.size
            updateDataList(dataList)
            val updatedSize = dataList.size
            recyclerView.post { adapter.notifyItemRangeInserted(initialSize, updatedSize) }
            loading = true
        }
    }
}

and add it to your RecyclerView like this

recyclerView.addOnScrollListener(OnScrollListener(layoutManager, adapter, dataList))

For a full code example, feel free to refer this Github repo.

For those who only want to get notified when the last item is totally shown, you can use View.canScrollVertically().

Here is my implementation:

public abstract class OnVerticalScrollListener
        extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener {

    @Override
    public final void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
        if (!recyclerView.canScrollVertically(-1)) {
            onScrolledToTop();
        } else if (!recyclerView.canScrollVertically(1)) {
            onScrolledToBottom();
        } else if (dy < 0) {
            onScrolledUp();
        } else if (dy > 0) {
            onScrolledDown();
        }
    }

    public void onScrolledUp() {}

    public void onScrolledDown() {}

    public void onScrolledToTop() {}

    public void onScrolledToBottom() {}
}

Note: You can use recyclerView.getLayoutManager().canScrollVertically() if you want to support API < 14.

Here is another approach. It will work with any layout manager.

1. Make Adapter class abstract
2. Then create an abstract method in adapter class (eg. load())
3. In onBindViewHolder check the position if last and call load()
4. Override the load() function while creating the adapter object in your activity or fragment.
5. In the overided load function implement your loadmore call

For a detail understanding I wrote a blog post and example project get it here http://sab99r.com/blog/recyclerview-endless-load-more/

MyAdapter.java

public abstract class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ViewHolder>{
    
        @Override
        public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
            //check for last item
            if ((position >= getItemCount() - 1))
                load();
        }
    
        public abstract void load();
}

MyActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    List<Items> items;
    MyAdapter adapter;

   @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    ...
    adapter=new MyAdapter(items){
            @Override
            public void load() {
                //implement your load more here
                Item lastItem=items.get(items.size()-1);
                loadMore();
            }
        };
   }
}

My answer is a modified version of Noor. I passed from a ListView where i had EndlessScrollListener (that you can find easily in many answers on SO) to a RecyclerView so i wanted a EndlessRecyclScrollListener to easily update my past listener.

So here is the code, hope it helps:

public abstract class EndlessScrollRecyclListener extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener
{
	// The total number of items in the dataset after the last load
	private int previousTotalItemCount = 0;
	private boolean loading = true;
	private int visibleThreshold = 5;
	int firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;
	private int startingPageIndex = 0;
	private int currentPage = 0;

	@Override
	public void onScrolled(RecyclerView mRecyclerView, int dx, int dy)
	{
		super.onScrolled(mRecyclerView, dx, dy);
		LinearLayoutManager mLayoutManager = (LinearLayoutManager) mRecyclerView
				.getLayoutManager();

		visibleItemCount = mRecyclerView.getChildCount();
		totalItemCount = mLayoutManager.getItemCount();
		firstVisibleItem = mLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
		onScroll(firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount);
	}

	public void onScroll(int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount)
	{
		// If the total item count is zero and the previous isn't, assume the
		// list is invalidated and should be reset back to initial state
		if (totalItemCount < previousTotalItemCount)
		{
			this.currentPage = this.startingPageIndex;
			this.previousTotalItemCount = totalItemCount;
			if (totalItemCount == 0)
			{
				this.loading = true;
			}
		}
		// If it’s still loading, we check to see if the dataset count has
		// changed, if so we conclude it has finished loading and update the current page
		// number and total item count.
		if (loading && (totalItemCount > previousTotalItemCount))
		{
			loading = false;
			previousTotalItemCount = totalItemCount;
			currentPage++;
		}

		// If it isn’t currently loading, we check to see if we have breached
		// the visibleThreshold and need to reload more data.
		// If we do need to reload some more data, we execute onLoadMore to fetch the data.
		if (!loading && (totalItemCount - visibleItemCount) <= (firstVisibleItem +
				visibleThreshold))
		{
			onLoadMore(currentPage + 1, totalItemCount);
			loading = true;
		}
	}

	// Defines the process for actually loading more data based on page
	public abstract void onLoadMore(int page, int totalItemsCount);

}

For me, it's very simple:

     private boolean mLoading = false;

     mList.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {

        @Override
        public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
            super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

            int totalItem = mLinearLayoutManager.getItemCount();
            int lastVisibleItem = mLinearLayoutManager.findLastVisibleItemPosition();

            if (!mLoading && lastVisibleItem == totalItem - 1) {
                mLoading = true;
                // Scrolled to bottom. Do something here.
                mLoading = false;
            }
        }
    });

Be careful with asynchronous jobs: mLoading must be changed at the end of the asynchronous jobs. Hope it will be helpful!

With the power of Kotlin's extension functions, the code can look a lot more elegant. Put this anywhere you want (I have it inside an ExtensionFunctions.kt file):

/**
 * WARNING: This assumes the layout manager is a LinearLayoutManager
 */
fun RecyclerView.addOnScrolledToEnd(onScrolledToEnd: () -> Unit){

    this.addOnScrollListener(object: RecyclerView.OnScrollListener(){

        private val VISIBLE_THRESHOLD = 5

	    private var loading = true
	    private var previousTotal = 0
	    		
	    override fun onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView: RecyclerView,
									      newState: Int) {
		
		    with(layoutManager as LinearLayoutManager){

			    val visibleItemCount = childCount
			    val totalItemCount = itemCount
			    val firstVisibleItem = findFirstVisibleItemPosition()

			    if (loading && totalItemCount > previousTotal){

				    loading = false
				    previousTotal = totalItemCount
			    }

			    if(!loading && (totalItemCount - visibleItemCount) <= (firstVisibleItem + visibleThreshold)){

				    onScrolledToEnd()
				    loading = true
			    }
		    }
	    }
    })
}

And then use it like this:

youRecyclerView.addOnScrolledToEnd {
	//What you want to do once the end is reached
}

This solution is based on Kushal Sharma's answer. However, this is a bit better because:

1. It uses onScrollStateChanged instead of onScroll. This is better because onScroll is called every time there is any sort of movement in the RecyclerView, whereas onScrollStateChanged is only called when the state of the RecyclerView is changed. Using onScrollStateChanged will save you CPU time and, as a consequence, battery.
2. Since this uses Extension Functions, this can be used in any RecyclerView you have. The client code is just 1 line.

Most answer are assuming the RecyclerView uses a LinearLayoutManager, or GridLayoutManager, or even StaggeredGridLayoutManager, or assuming that the scrolling is vertical or horyzontal, but no one has posted a completly generic answer.

Using the ViewHolder's adapter is clearly not a good solution. An adapter might have more than 1 RecyclerView using it. It "adapts" their contents. It should be the RecyclerView (which is the one class which is responsible of what is currently displayed to the user, and not the adapter which is responsible only to provide content to the RecyclerView) which must notify your system that more items are needed (to load).

Here is my solution, using nothing else than the abstracted classes of the RecyclerView (RecycerView.LayoutManager and RecycerView.Adapter):

/**
 * Listener to callback when the last item of the adpater is visible to the user.
 * It should then be the time to load more items.
 **/
public abstract class LastItemListener extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener {

    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
	  super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

      // init
	  RecyclerView.LayoutManager layoutManager = recyclerView.getLayoutManager();
	  RecyclerView.Adapter adapter = recyclerView.getAdapter();
	
      if (layoutManager.getChildCount() > 0) {
        // Calculations..
	    int indexOfLastItemViewVisible = layoutManager.getChildCount() -1;
	    View lastItemViewVisible = layoutManager.getChildAt(indexOfLastItemViewVisible);
	    int adapterPosition = layoutManager.getPosition(lastItemViewVisible);
	    boolean isLastItemVisible = (adapterPosition == adapter.getItemCount() -1);

        // check
	    if (isLastItemVisible)
	  	  onLastItemVisible(); // callback
     }
   }

   /**
    * Here you should load more items because user is seeing the last item of the list.
    * Advice: you should add a bollean value to the class
    * so that the method {@link #onLastItemVisible()} will be triggered only once
    * and not every time the user touch the screen ;)
    **/
   public abstract void onLastItemVisible();

}


// --- Exemple of use ---

myRecyclerView.setOnScrollListener(new LastItemListener() {
    public void onLastItemVisible() {
         // start to load more items here.
    }
}

Although the accepted answer works perfectly, the solution below uses addOnScrollListener since setOnScrollListener is deprecated, and reduces number of variables, and if conditions.

final LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(context);
feedsRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

feedsRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
        super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

        if (dy > 0) {   
            if ((layoutManager.getChildCount() + layoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition()) >= layoutManager.getItemCount()) {
                Log.d("TAG", "End of list");
                //loadMore();
            }
        }
    }
});

This is how I do it, simple and short:

    recyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy)
        {
            if(!recyclerView.canScrollVertically(1) && dy != 0)
            {
                // Load more results here

            }
        }
    });

Although there are so many answers to the question, I would like to share our experience of creating the endless list view. We have recently implemented custom Carousel LayoutManager that can work in the cycle by scrolling the list infinitely as well as up to a certain point. Here is a detailed description on GitHub.

I suggest you take a look at this article with short but valuable recommendations on creating custom LayoutManagers: http://cases.azoft.com/create-custom-layoutmanager-android/

OK, I did it by using the onBindViewHolder method of RecyclerView.Adapter.

Adapter:

public interface OnViewHolderListener {
    void onRequestedLastItem();
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
    
    ...
    
    if (position == getItemCount() - 1) onViewHolderListener.onRequestedLastItem();
}

Fragment (or Activity):

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    contentView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.comments_list, container, false);
    recyclerView = (RecyclerView) mContentView.findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
    adapter = new Adapter();
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
    
    ...
    
    adapter.setOnViewHolderListener(new Adapter.OnViewHolderListener() {
        @Override
        public void onRequestedLastItem() {
            //TODO fetch new data from webservice
        }
    });
    return contentView;
}

 recyclerList.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() 
			{
				@Override
				public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx,int dy)
				{
					super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);	
				}
				
				@Override
				public void onScrollStateChanged(RecyclerView recyclerView,int newState) 
				{
			        int totalItemCount = layoutManager.getItemCount();
			        int lastVisibleItem = layoutManager.findLastVisibleItemPosition();

			        if (totalItemCount> 1) 
					{
						if (lastVisibleItem >= totalItemCount - 1) 
						{
                            // End has been reached
							// do something 
						}
					}	       
				}
			});  
			

I would try to extend used LayoutManager (e.g. LinearLayoutManager) and override scrollVerticallyBy() method. Firstly, I would call super first and then check returned integer value. If the value equals to 0 then a bottom or a top border is reached. Then I would use findLastVisibleItemPosition() method to find out which border is reached and load more data if needed. Just an idea.

In addition, you can even return your value from that method allowing overscroll and showing "loading" indicator.

I achieved an infinite scrolling type implementation using this logic in the onBindViewHolder method of my RecyclerView.Adapter class.

	if (position == mItems.size() - 1 && mCurrentPage <= mTotalPageCount) {
		if (mCurrentPage == mTotalPageCount) {
			mLoadImagesListener.noMorePages();
		} else {
			int newPage = mCurrentPage + 1;
			mLoadImagesListener.loadPage(newPage);
		}
	}

With this code when the RecyclerView gets to the last item, it increments the current page and callbacks on an interface which is responsible for loading more data from the api and adding the new results to the adapter.

I can post more complete example if this isn't clear?

For people who use StaggeredGridLayoutManager here is my implementation, it works for me.

 private class ScrollListener extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener {
    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {

        firstVivisibleItems = mLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPositions(firstVivisibleItems);

        if(!recyclerView.canScrollVertically(1) && firstVivisibleItems[0]!=0) {
            loadMoreImages();
        }

    }

    private boolean loadMoreImages(){
        Log.d("myTag", "LAST-------HERE------");
        return true;
    }
}

There is an easy to use library for this named paginate . Supports both ListView and RecyclerView ( LinearLayout , GridLayout and StaggeredGridLayout).

Here is the link to the project on Github

My way to detect loading event is not to detect scrolling, but to listen whether the last view was attached. If the last view was attached, I regard it as timing to load more content.

class MyListener implements RecyclerView.OnChildAttachStateChangeListener {
    RecyclerView mRecyclerView;

    MyListener(RecyclerView view) {
        mRecyclerView = view;
    }

    @Override
    public void onChildViewAttachedToWindow(View view) {

    RecyclerView.Adapter adapter = mRecyclerView.getAdapter();
    RecyclerView.LayoutManager mgr = mRecyclerView.getLayoutManager();
    int adapterPosition = mgr.getPosition(view);

    if (adapterPosition == adapter.getItemCount() - 1) {
        // last view was attached
        loadMoreContent();
    }

    @Override
    public void onChildViewDetachedFromWindow(View view) {}
}

1. Create an abstract class and extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener

    public abstract class EndlessRecyclerOnScrollListener extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener {
    private int previousTotal = 0;
    private boolean loading = true;
    private int visibleThreshold;
    private int firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;
    private RecyclerView.LayoutManager layoutManager;
   
    public EndlessRecyclerOnScrollListener(RecyclerView.LayoutManager layoutManager, int visibleThreshold) {
    this.layoutManager = layoutManager; this.visibleThreshold = visibleThreshold;
    }
    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
    super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);
   
    visibleItemCount = recyclerView.getChildCount();
    totalItemCount = layoutManager.getItemCount();
    firstVisibleItem = ((LinearLayoutManager)layoutManager).findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
   
    if (loading) {
        if (totalItemCount > previousTotal) {
            loading = false;
            previousTotal = totalItemCount;
        }
    }
    if (!loading && (totalItemCount - visibleItemCount) <= (firstVisibleItem + visibleThreshold)) {
        onLoadMore();
        loading = true;
    }
      }
   
    public abstract void onLoadMore();}
   

2. in activity (or fragment) add addOnScrollListener to recyclerView

    LinearLayoutManager mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
    recyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new EndlessRecyclerOnScrollListener(mLayoutManager, 3) {
        @Override
        public void onLoadMore() {
            //TODO
            ...
        }
    });
   

I have a pretty detailed example of how to paginate with a RecyclerView. At a high level, I have a set PAGE_SIZE , lets say 30. So I request 30 items and if I get 30 back then I request the next page. If I get less than 30 items I flag a variable to indicate that the last page has been reached and then I stop requesting for more pages. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://medium.com/@etiennelawlor/pagination-with-recyclerview-1cb7e66a502b

Here my solution using AsyncListUtil, in the web says: Note that this class uses a single thread to load the data, so it suitable to load data from secondary storage such as disk, but not from network. but i am using odata to read the data and work fine. I miss in my example data entities and network methods. I include only the example adapter.

public class AsyncPlatoAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter {

    private final AsyncPlatoListUtil mAsyncListUtil;
    private final MainActivity mActivity;
    private final RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
    private final String mFilter;
    private final String mOrderby;
    private final String mExpand;

    public AsyncPlatoAdapter(String filter, String orderby, String expand, RecyclerView recyclerView, MainActivity activity) {
        mFilter = filter;
        mOrderby = orderby;
        mExpand = expand;
        mRecyclerView = recyclerView;
        mActivity = activity;
        mAsyncListUtil = new AsyncPlatoListUtil();

    }

    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View itemView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).
                inflate(R.layout.plato_cardview, parent, false);

        // Create a ViewHolder to find and hold these view references, and
        // register OnClick with the view holder:
        return new PlatoViewHolderAsync(itemView, this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        final Plato item = mAsyncListUtil.getItem(position);
        PlatoViewHolderAsync vh = (PlatoViewHolderAsync) holder;
        if (item != null) {
            Integer imagen_id = item.Imagen_Id.get();
            vh.getBinding().setVariable(BR.plato, item);
            vh.getBinding().executePendingBindings();
            vh.getImage().setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            vh.getProgress().setVisibility(View.GONE);
            String cacheName = null;
            String urlString = null;
            if (imagen_id != null) {
                cacheName = String.format("imagenes/imagen/%d", imagen_id);
                urlString = String.format("%s/menusapi/%s", MainActivity.ROOTPATH, cacheName);
            }
            ImageHelper.downloadBitmap(mActivity, vh.getImage(), vh.getProgress(), urlString, cacheName, position);
        } else {
            vh.getBinding().setVariable(BR.plato, item);
            vh.getBinding().executePendingBindings();
            //show progress while loading.
            vh.getImage().setVisibility(View.GONE);
            vh.getProgress().setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mAsyncListUtil.getItemCount();
    }

    public class AsyncPlatoListUtil extends AsyncListUtil<Plato> {
        /**
         * Creates an AsyncListUtil.
         */
        public AsyncPlatoListUtil() {
            super(Plato.class, //my data class
                    10, //page size
                    new DataCallback<Plato>() {
                        @Override
                        public int refreshData() {
                            //get count calling ../$count ... odata endpoint
                            return countPlatos(mFilter, mOrderby, mExpand, mActivity);
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void fillData(Plato[] data, int startPosition, int itemCount) {
                            //get items from odata endpoint using $skip and $top
                            Platos p = loadPlatos(mFilter, mOrderby, mExpand, startPosition, itemCount, mActivity);
                            for (int i = 0; i < Math.min(itemCount, p.value.size()); i++) {
                                data[i] = p.value.get(i);
                            }

                        }
                    }, new ViewCallback() {
                        @Override
                        public void getItemRangeInto(int[] outRange) {
                            //i use LinearLayoutManager in the RecyclerView
                            LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = (LinearLayoutManager) mRecyclerView.getLayoutManager();
                            outRange[0] = layoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
                            outRange[1] = layoutManager.findLastVisibleItemPosition();
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void onDataRefresh() {
                            mRecyclerView.getAdapter().notifyDataSetChanged();
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void onItemLoaded(int position) {
                            mRecyclerView.getAdapter().notifyItemChanged(position);
                        }
                    });
            mRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
                @Override
                public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
                    onRangeChanged();
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

if (layoutManager.findLastCompletelyVisibleItemPosition() == 
 recyclerAdapter.getItemCount() - 1) {
    //load more items.
 }

Fair and simple. This will work.

As @John T suggest. Just use code block below, really short, beauty and simple :D

public void loadMoreOnRecyclerView() {
    mRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
        @Override
        public void onScrolled(@NonNull @NotNull RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
            super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);
            if (!recyclerView.canScrollVertically(1) && dy != 0) {
                //Load more items here
            }
        }
    });
}

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There is a method public void setOnScrollListener (RecyclerView.OnScrollListener listener) in https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.html#setOnScrollListener%28android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.OnScrollListener%29. Use that

EDIT:

Override onScrollStateChanged method inside the onScrollListener and do this

            boolean loadMore = firstVisibleItem + visibleItemCount >= totalItemCount;

            //loading is used to see if its already loading, you have to manually manipulate this boolean variable
            if (loadMore && !loading) {
                 //end of list reached
            }

Check this every thing is explained in detail: Pagination using RecyclerView From A to Z

    mRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
    @Override
    public void onScrollStateChanged(RecyclerView recyclerView,
                                     int newState) {
        super.onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView, newState);
    }

    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
        super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);
        int visibleItemCount = mLayoutManager.getChildCount();
        int totalItemCount = mLayoutManager.getItemCount();
        int firstVisibleItemPosition = mLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

        if (!mIsLoading && !mIsLastPage) {
            if ((visibleItemCount + firstVisibleItemPosition) >= totalItemCount
                    && firstVisibleItemPosition >= 0) {
                loadMoreItems();
            }
        }
    }
})

loadMoreItems():

private void loadMoreItems() {
    mAdapter.removeLoading();
    //load data here from the server
    
    // in case of success
    mAdapter.addData(data);
    // if there might be more data
    mAdapter.addLoading();
}

in MyAdapter :

private boolean mIsLoadingFooterAdded = false;

public void addLoading() {
    if (!mIsLoadingFooterAdded) {
        mIsLoadingFooterAdded = true;
        mLineItemList.add(new LineItem());
        notifyItemInserted(mLineItemList.size() - 1);
    }
}

public void removeLoading() {
    if (mIsLoadingFooterAdded) {
        mIsLoadingFooterAdded = false;
        int position = mLineItemList.size() - 1;
        LineItem item = mLineItemList.get(position);

        if (item != null) {
            mLineItemList.remove(position);
            notifyItemRemoved(position);
        }
    }
}

public void addData(List<YourDataClass> data) {

    for (int i = 0; i < data.size(); i++) {
        YourDataClass yourDataObject = data.get(i);
        mLineItemList.add(new LineItem(yourDataObject));
        notifyItemInserted(mLineItemList.size() - 1);
    }
}

I let you my aproximation. Works fine for me.

I hope it helps you.

/**
 * Created by Daniel Pardo Ligorred on 03/03/2016.
 */
public abstract class BaseScrollListener extends RecyclerView.OnScrollListener {

    protected RecyclerView.LayoutManager layoutManager;

    public BaseScrollListener(RecyclerView.LayoutManager layoutManager) {

        this.layoutManager = layoutManager;

        this.init();
    }

    @Override
    public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {

        super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

        this.onScroll(recyclerView, this.getFirstVisibleItem(), this.layoutManager.getChildCount(), this.layoutManager.getItemCount(), dx, dy);
    }

    private int getFirstVisibleItem(){

        if(this.layoutManager instanceof LinearLayoutManager){

            return ((LinearLayoutManager) this.layoutManager).findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
        } else if (this.layoutManager instanceof StaggeredGridLayoutManager){

            int[] spanPositions = null; //Should be null -> StaggeredGridLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPositions makes the work.
    
            try{

                return ((StaggeredGridLayoutManager) this.layoutManager).findFirstVisibleItemPositions(spanPositions)[0];
            }catch (Exception ex){

                // Do stuff...
            }
        }

        return 0;
    }

    public abstract void init();

    protected abstract void onScroll(RecyclerView recyclerView, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount, int dx, int dy);

}

None of these answers take into account if the list is too small or not.

Here's a piece of code I've been using that works on RecycleViews in both directions.

@Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent motionEvent) {

        if (recyclerViewListener == null) {
            return super.onTouchEvent(motionEvent);
        }

        /**
         * If the list is too small to scroll.
         */
        if (motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            if (!canScrollVertically(1)) {
                recyclerViewListener.reachedBottom();
            } else if (!canScrollVertically(-1)) {
                recyclerViewListener.reachedTop();
            }
        }

        return super.onTouchEvent(motionEvent);
    }

    public void setListener(RecyclerViewListener recycleViewListener) {
        this.recyclerViewListener = recycleViewListener;
        addOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {

            @Override
            public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
                super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

                if (recyclerViewListener == null) {
                    return;
                }

                recyclerViewListener.scrolling(dy);

                if (!canScrollVertically(1)) {
                    recyclerViewListener.reachedBottom();
                } else if (!canScrollVertically(-1)) {
                    recyclerViewListener.reachedTop();
                }
            }

        });
    }

@kushal @abdulaziz

Why not use this logic instead?

public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
    int totalItemCount, lastVisibleItemPosition;

    if (dy > 0) {
      totalItemCount = _layoutManager.getItemCount();
      lastVisibleItemPosition = _layoutManager.findLastVisibleItemPosition();

      if (!_isLastItem) {
        if ((totalItemCount - 1) == lastVisibleItemPosition) {
          LogUtil.e("end_of_list");

          _isLastItem = true;
        }
      }
    }
  }

Try below:

import android.support.v7.widget.GridLayoutManager;
import android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.LayoutManager;

/**
 * Abstract Endless ScrollListener
 * 
 */
public abstract class EndlessScrollListener extends
		RecyclerView.OnScrollListener {
	// The minimum amount of items to have below your current scroll position
	// before loading more.
	private int visibleThreshold = 10;
	// The current offset index of data you have loaded
	private int currentPage = 1;
	// True if we are still waiting for the last set of data to load.
	private boolean loading = true;
	// The total number of items in the data set after the last load
	private int previousTotal = 0;
	private int firstVisibleItem;
	private int visibleItemCount;
	private int totalItemCount;
	private LayoutManager layoutManager;

	public EndlessScrollListener(LayoutManager layoutManager) {
		validateLayoutManager(layoutManager);
		this.layoutManager = layoutManager;
	}

	public EndlessScrollListener(int visibleThreshold,
			LayoutManager layoutManager, int startPage) {
		validateLayoutManager(layoutManager);
		this.visibleThreshold = visibleThreshold;
		this.layoutManager = layoutManager;
		this.currentPage = startPage;
	}

	private void validateLayoutManager(LayoutManager layoutManager)
			throws IllegalArgumentException {
		if (null == layoutManager
				|| !(layoutManager instanceof GridLayoutManager)
				|| !(layoutManager instanceof LinearLayoutManager)) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException(
					"LayoutManager must be of type GridLayoutManager or LinearLayoutManager.");
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
		super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);
		visibleItemCount = recyclerView.getChildCount();
		totalItemCount = layoutManager.getItemCount();
		if (layoutManager instanceof GridLayoutManager) {
			firstVisibleItem = ((GridLayoutManager) layoutManager)
					.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
		} else if (layoutManager instanceof LinearLayoutManager) {
			firstVisibleItem = ((LinearLayoutManager) layoutManager)
					.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
		}
		if (loading) {
			if (totalItemCount > previousTotal) {
				loading = false;
				previousTotal = totalItemCount;
			}
		}
		if (!loading
				&& (totalItemCount - visibleItemCount) <= (firstVisibleItem + visibleThreshold)) {
			// End has been reached do something
			currentPage++;
			onLoadMore(currentPage);
			loading = true;
		}
	}

	// Defines the process for actually loading more data based on page
	public abstract void onLoadMore(int page);

}

>I have created LoadMoreRecyclerView using Abdulaziz Noor Answer

LoadMoreRecyclerView

public class LoadMoreRecyclerView extends RecyclerView  {

    private boolean loading = true;
    int pastVisiblesItems, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;
    //WrapperLinearLayout is for handling crash in RecyclerView
    private WrapperLinearLayout mLayoutManager;
    private Context mContext;
    private OnLoadMoreListener onLoadMoreListener;

    public LoadMoreRecyclerView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        mContext = context;
        init();
    }

    public LoadMoreRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        mContext = context;
        init();
    }

    public LoadMoreRecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        mContext = context;
        init();
    }

    private void init(){
        mLayoutManager = new WrapperLinearLayout(mContext,LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL,false);
        this.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
        this.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());
        this.setHasFixedSize(true);
    }

    @Override
    public void onScrolled(int dx, int dy) {
        super.onScrolled(dx, dy);

        if(dy > 0) //check for scroll down
        {
            visibleItemCount = mLayoutManager.getChildCount();
            totalItemCount = mLayoutManager.getItemCount();
            pastVisiblesItems = mLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

            if (loading)
            {
                if ( (visibleItemCount + pastVisiblesItems) >= totalItemCount)
                {
                    loading = false;
                    Log.v("...", "Call Load More !");
                    if(onLoadMoreListener != null){
                        onLoadMoreListener.onLoadMore();
                    }
                    //Do pagination.. i.e. fetch new data
                }
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onScrollStateChanged(int state) {
        super.onScrollStateChanged(state);
    }

    public void onLoadMoreCompleted(){
        loading = true;
    }

    public void setMoreLoading(boolean moreLoading){
        loading = moreLoading;
    }

    public void setOnLoadMoreListener(OnLoadMoreListener onLoadMoreListener) {
        this.onLoadMoreListener = onLoadMoreListener;
    }
}

WrapperLinearLayout

public class WrapperLinearLayout extends LinearLayoutManager
{
    public WrapperLinearLayout(Context context, int orientation, boolean reverseLayout) {
        super(context, orientation, reverseLayout);
    }

    @Override
    public void onLayoutChildren(RecyclerView.Recycler recycler, RecyclerView.State state) {
        try {
            super.onLayoutChildren(recycler, state);
        } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
            Log.e("probe", "meet a IOOBE in RecyclerView");
        }
    }
}

//Add it in xml like

<your.package.LoadMoreRecyclerView
	android:id="@+id/recycler_view"
	android:layout_width="match_parent"
	android:layout_height="match_parent">
</your.package.LoadMoreRecyclerView>

OnCreate or onViewCreated

mLoadMoreRecyclerView = (LoadMoreRecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.recycler_view);
mLoadMoreRecyclerView.setOnLoadMoreListener(new OnLoadMoreListener() {
            @Override
            public void onLoadMore() {
                callYourService(StartIndex);
            }
        });

callYourService

private void callYourService(){
	//callyour Service and get response in any List
	
	List<AnyModelClass> newDataFromServer = getDataFromServerService();
	//Enable Load More
	mLoadMoreRecyclerView.onLoadMoreCompleted();
	
	if(newDataFromServer != null && newDataFromServer.size() > 0){
			StartIndex += newDataFromServer.size();
			
			if (newDataFromServer.size() < Integer.valueOf(MAX_ROWS)) {
					//StopLoading..
				   mLoadMoreRecyclerView.setMoreLoading(false);
			}
	}
	else{
			mLoadMoreRecyclerView.setMoreLoading(false);
			mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
	}
}

It is also possible to implement without the scroll listener, using the pure logic of the data model alone. The scroll view requires to get items by position as well as the maximal item count. The model can have the background logic to fetch the needed items in chunks, rather than one by one, and do this in the background thread, notifying the view when the data are ready.

This approach allows to have the fetching queue which prefers most recently requested (so currently visible) items over older (most likely already scrolled away) submissions, control the number of parallel threads to use and things the like. The complete source code for this approach (demo app and reusable library) are available here.

This solution works perfectly for me.

//Listener    

public abstract class InfiniteScrollListener     extendsRecyclerView.OnScrollListener {

public static String TAG = InfiniteScrollListener.class.getSimpleName();
int firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;
private int previousTotal = 0;
private boolean loading = true;
private int visibleThreshold = 1;
private int current_page = 1;

private LinearLayoutManager mLinearLayoutManager;

public InfiniteScrollListener(LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager) {
    this.mLinearLayoutManager = linearLayoutManager;
}

@Override
public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
    super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

    visibleItemCount = recyclerView.getChildCount();
    totalItemCount = mLinearLayoutManager.getItemCount();
    firstVisibleItem = mLinearLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

    if (loading) {
        if (totalItemCount > previousTotal) {
            loading = false;
            previousTotal = totalItemCount;
        }
    }
    if (!loading && (totalItemCount - visibleItemCount - firstVisibleItem <= visibleThreshold)) {

        current_page++;

        onLoadMore(current_page);

        loading = true;
    }
}

public void resetState() {
    loading = true;
    previousTotal = 0;
    current_page = 1;
}

public abstract void onLoadMore(int current_page);
}

//Implementation into fragment 
 private InfiniteScrollListener scrollListener;

scrollListener = new InfiniteScrollListener(manager) {
        @Override
        public void onLoadMore(int current_page) {
            //Load data
        }
    };
    rv.setLayoutManager(manager);
    rv.addOnScrollListener(scrollListener);

@erdna Please refer my below code.May be it will become helpful to you.

     int firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;
   recyclerView.setOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {

        @Override
        public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
            super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

            visibleItemCount = layoutManager.getChildCount();
            totalItemCount = layoutManager.getItemCount();
            firstVisibleItem = layoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();
            Log.e("firstVisibleItem", firstVisibleItem + "");
            Log.e("visibleItemCount", visibleItemCount + "");
            Log.e("totalItemCount", totalItemCount + "");

            if (page != total_page_index) {
                if (loading) {
                    if ((visibleItemCount + firstVisibleItem) >= totalItemCount) {
                        Log.e("page", String.valueOf(page));
                        page=page+1;
                        new GetSummary().execute(String.valueOf(page), "");
                        loading = false;
                    }
                }
            }

        }


    });

No repetition calls however you scroll. fetchData will be called only when you are at the end of the list and there is more data to be fetched

Regarding my code:
1.fetchData() fetches 10 items on each call.
2.isScrolling is a class member variable 3.previousTotalCount is also a class member. It stores previously visited last item

recyclerView.addOnScrollListener(object : RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
            override fun onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView: RecyclerView, newState: Int) {
                super.onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView, newState)
                if (newState == AbsListView.OnScrollListener.SCROLL_STATE_TOUCH_SCROLL) {
                    isScrolling = true
                }
            }

            override fun onScrolled(recyclerView: RecyclerView, dx: Int, dy: Int) {
                super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy)

                val visibleItemCount = layoutManager.childCount
                val totalItemCount = layoutManager.itemCount
                val scrolledOutItems = layoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition()


                if (isScrolling && (visibleItemCount + scrolledOutItems == totalItemCount)
                    && (visibleItemCount + scrolledOutItems != previousTotalCount)) {
                    previousTotalCount = totalItemCount              
                    isScrolling = false
                    fetchData()  //fetches 10 new items from Firestore
                    pagingProgressBar.visibility = View.VISIBLE
                }
            }
        })

I just tried this:

    final LinearLayoutManager rvLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
    rvMovieList = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.rvMovieList);
    rvMovieList.setLayoutManager(rvLayoutManager);
    adapter = new MovieRecyclerAdapter(this, movies);
    rvMovieList.setAdapter(adapter);
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

    rvMovieList.addOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {
        boolean loading = true;
        int pastVisiblesItems, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount;
        @Override
        public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
            super.onScrolled(recyclerView, dx, dy);

            visibleItemCount = rvLayoutManager.getChildCount();
            totalItemCount = rvLayoutManager.getItemCount();
            pastVisiblesItems = rvLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition();

            int lastitem = visibleItemCount + pastVisiblesItems;

            if ( lastitem == totalItemCount
                    && page < total_pages
                    && !keyword.equals("") ) {
                // hit bottom ..

                String strnext;
                if (page == total_pages - 1) {
                    int last = total_results - (page * 20);
                    strnext = String.format(getResources().getString(R.string.next), last);
                } else {
                    strnext = String.format(getResources().getString(R.string.next), 20);
                }
                btNext.setText(strnext);
                btNext.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            } else {
                btNext.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
            }

            if(pastVisiblesItems == 0 &&  page > 1){
                // hit top
                btPrev.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            } else {
                btPrev.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
            }
        }
    });

I've got confused where to put loading with true or false, so I try to remove it, and this code works as I expected.

Here is example for Simple Implementation of Endless Scrolling RecyclerView using a Simple Library compiled from the various sources.

Add this line in build.gradle

implementation 'com.hereshem.lib:awesomelib:2.0.1'

Create RecyclerView Layout in Activity with

<com.hereshem.lib.recycler.MyRecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/recycler"
        app:layoutManager="LinearLayoutManager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

Create a ViewHolder by passing the class it supports

public static class EVHolder extends MyViewHolder<Events> {
    TextView date, title, summary;
    public EVHolder(View v) {
        super(v);
        date = v.findViewById(R.id.date);
        title = v.findViewById(R.id.title);
        summary = v.findViewById(R.id.summary);
    }
    @Override
    public void bindView(Events c) {
        date.setText(c.date);
        title.setText(c.title);
        summary.setText(c.summary);
    }
}

Create Items List variable and adapters with very few lines by passing items, class and layout in the adapter

List<Events> items = new ArrayList<>();
MyRecyclerView recycler = findViewById(R.id.recycler);
RecyclerViewAdapter adapter = new RecyclerViewAdapter(this, items, EVHolder.class, R.layout.row_event);
recycler.setAdapter(adapter);

ClickListener and LoadMore Listener can be added with following lines

recycler.setOnItemClickListener(new MyRecyclerView.OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(int position) {
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Recycler Item Clicked " + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
});

recycler.setOnLoadMoreListener(new MyRecyclerView.OnLoadMoreListener() {
    @Override
    public void onLoadMore() {
        loadData();
    }
});
loadData();

After the data is loaded this must be called

recycler.loadComplete();

When no LoadMore is required LoadMore layout can be hidden by calling

recycler.hideLoadMore();

More example can be found here

Hope this helps :)