Is there a way to find first visible item's EpoxyHolder?

[littledot]

I would like to animate Views when an event (not initiated by the user) occurs. (If the event was initiated by the user, I could use OnModelClickListeners to obtain the clicked EpoxyHolders. But not for this case.)

Previously, I would use LayoutManager.findFirstVisisbleItem() & RecyclerView.findViewHolderForAdapterPosition() to query the ViewHolder I would like to animate, then set up my animators.

However, I could not find a way to link a RecyclerView.ViewHolder to a EpoxyModelWithHolder. Does Epoxy provide any way to find the first visible item position's EpoxyHolder?

Thanks

[littledot]

After some digging, RecyclerView.findViewHolderForAdapterPosition() returns a EpoxyViewHolder, which references the data in epoxyModel and the views in epoxyHolder. This is just what I needed!

However, the epoxyModel has a public getter while epoxyHolder does not provide any public accessors. Considering that RecyclerView.ViewHolder.itemView is completely public, which is intended to let users directly reference the RecyclerView's items' Views, would it not make sense to at least expose a public getter for EpoxyViewHolder.epoxyHolder? This will allow users to reference EpoxyModelWithHolder from a RecyclerView.ViewHolder.

[elihart]

I think generally the approach you should take to do this is to toggle a prop on the model, have the model do a partial rebind and have that trigger the animation. this keeps the animation logic completely inside of the model/holder. i'll merge the PR though if you really need to do it that way