Save and Restore ScrollView and RecyclerView Scroll Position in Android

There are lots of suggestions in the internet on how to save & restore scroll position in android scrollable view, from saving the scroll (x, y) position in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) then restore it in onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) and even creating a child class of ScrollView to do this saving & restoring tasks, etc.

Actually it much simpler than I thought, we don’t need to do anything else to have the same behaviour, the framework (ScrollView and RecyclerView) has done the job for us.

Here what you need to do:

• You need to set an ID attribute for any scrollable view such as ScrollView.
• Provide data to the RecyclerView in the first layout pass (syncronously), so you need to cache the data and restore it right away when there is configuration changes.

…and that’s it.

References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29208086/save-the-position-of-scrollview-when-the-orientation-changes

https://medium.com/@dimezis/android-scroll-position-restoring-done-right-cff1e2104ac7