How to hide an item from Recycler View on a particular condition?

Question

I am using Firebase Recycler Adapter (Firebase UI Library) to populate Recycler View. I want to hide an item(row) on a condition. I have a LinearLayout containing a recycler view.

I set linear layout visibility to Gone in populateViewHolder() method of recycler view adapter.

@Override
protected void populateViewHolder(UsersViewHolder viewHolder, User user, int position) {

    if (user.getUserEmail().equals(Utils.decodeEmail(userEmail))) {
        viewHolder.llMain.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        return;
    }

    viewHolder.tvUserEmail.setText(user.getUserEmail());
}

It hides the LinearLayout but the row remains there with empty space.

Is there any method I should override to overcome this or is there any way to achieve the result?

Answer 1

You should hide all views or parent from UsersViewholder layout xml. You should hide entire viewholder or each view

Entire viewholder:

itemView.setVisibility(View.GONE);

or each element:

view.setVisibility(View.GONE);

But don't forget to set them VISIBLE otherwise, you will end up with some strange things from recycling