[christop]

Unfortunately, 18 months since its release, I'm not sure if anybody (certainly not Google) has come up with some nicer abstractions on top of RecyclerView.

It works well for basic lists, but out of the box it comes with very little — not even a click listener for items in the view.

Having written a custom LayoutManager for RecyclerView a year ago (and then a matching ItemDecorator), it was probably the most difficult (and frustrating) thing I've had to do in Android development.

At the time there were certainly zero code samples that correctly implemented a layout manager that worked in all cases. Indeed, I gave up on supporting various parts of the API. I don't imagine that has since changed.

[HillaryBriss]

Probably because the RecyclerView is so frikkin' complicated, as Chet Haase and Yigit Boyar explain here: https://youtu.be/imsr8NrIAMs

After watching this for five or ten minutes, I gave up. It didn't seem like it offered a good return on time invested.