Can I use MotionLayout to animate individual items inside RecyclerView?

Question

I want to create expandable items, inside a recyclerview, and I thought, using MotionLayout to create the animation would be super easy. I created the motion scene and tested that a single item works on its own when inside a recycler view the view won't animate.

I tried showing all debug info, and it said that the transitions are happening, but the recyclerview did not show any animations. I tried notifying the item animator that animation has started on my viewholder, but that did not work.

override fun onTransitionStarted(p0: MotionLayout?, p1: Int, p2: Int) {
  recyclerView.itemAnimator?.onAnimationStarted(this@ViewHolder)
}
override fun onTransitionCompleted(p0: MotionLayout?, p1: Int) {
  recyclerView.itemAnimator?.onAnimationFinished(this@ViewHolder)
}

I expected that motinolayout state transitions would work inside recyclerview, but they don't seem to be working.

Single list item:

Inside list:

Answer 1

Try to update your ConstraintLayout to androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.0-rc1 seems this bag was fixed, as well as RecyclerView androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.2.0-alpha05.