Probably because the RecyclerView is so frikkin' complicated, as Chet Haase and Yigit Boyar explain here: https://youtu.be/imsr8NrIAMs https://youtu.be/imsr8Nr

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