There are a bunch of tutorials, libraries, and examples for implementing “drag & drop” and “swipe-to-dismiss” in Android, using RecyclerView. Many of them are still using the old View.OnDragListener, and Roman Nurik’s Swipe-to-Dismiss approach, even though there are newer (and better) methods available. A few of these solutions use the newer APIs, but often rely on GestureDetector and onInterceptTouchEvent, or the implementation is overly complex. There’s actually a really simple way to add these features to RecyclerView, and it’s part of the Android Support Library: ItemTouchHelper.
This project is an example of basic drag and swipe using ItemTouchHelper. It corresponds with a soon-to-be-published article series exploring the approach.
The classes in co.paulburke.android.itemtouchhelperdemo.helper can easily be used in other projects.
Download the apk from releases.
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