onLayoutChildren resets the current scroll offset and changes the scroll position

[Maxr1998]

• Device: Samsung Z Fold 4
• OS Version: Android 13, OneUI 5.1
• Project Version: latest git

🐛 Describe

When onLayoutChildren is called at a non-zero scroll offset, e.g., by a call to Adapter.notifyItemRangeChanged(0, size), the scroll offset will be reset to zero.

🐌 Steps to reproduce

1. Have a list of elements and scroll a bit to make a view partially visible.
2. Call notifyItemRangeChanged(0, size) on the adapter, and observe onLayoutChildren being called again.
3. The current scroll position will be reset, to a random (near?) item which is aligned with the RecyclerView again – the scroll offset of the first visible view is zero.

🦋 Expected behavior

The scroll position should be kept. Compare RecyclerView's built-in LinearLayoutManager, which shows this behavior.

🐝 Requested assignment

I would love to fix this myself, but with the complexity of the RecyclerView library and a lack of knowledge and time on my side, I won't be able to fix this myself.