Two methods in ViewHolder'e

In onCreateViewHolder you must inflate the item markup and create an AdapterHolder from it. Notice how and where the view initialized.

onBindViewHolder comes your AdapterHolder , created in onCreateViewHolder . In it you need to fill with data each item in the list.

Here is my first adapter when I started trying RecyclerView . I think everything will become clear. If not, write comments. Here I am downloading data from the database. Something of type SimpleCursorAdapter .

 public class NotesAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<NotesAdapter.AdapterHolder> { Cursor cursor; public class AdapterHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder { TextView time, date, text; CardView card; AdapterHolder(View itemView) { super(itemView); time = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.note_item_time); date = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.note_item_date); text = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.note_text); card = (CardView)itemView; } } NotesAdapter(Cursor cursor) { this.cursor = cursor; } @Override public void onAttachedToRecyclerView(RecyclerView recyclerView) { super.onAttachedToRecyclerView(recyclerView); } @Override public AdapterHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup viewGroup, int p2) { View v = LayoutInflater.from(viewGroup.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.note_item, viewGroup, false); AdapterHolder pvh = new AdapterHolder(v); return pvh; } @Override public void onBindViewHolder(final AdapterHolder holder, final int position) { cursor.moveToPosition(position); final Long id = cursor.getLong(cursor.getColumnIndex(BaseColumns._ID)); String date = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(Database.NOTES_DATE)); String time = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(Database.NOTES_TIME)); final String color = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(Database.NOTES_COLOR)); final String text = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(Database.NOTES_TEXT)); holder.time.setText(time); holder.date.setText(date); holder.text.setText(text); holder.card.setCardBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor(color)); } @Override public int getItemCount() { return cursor.getCount(); } } 

For convenience, make the bind(int position) method in the holder and call it in onBindViewHolder

 holder.bind(position); 

And inside the bind method they write the logic of data binding. It is, indeed, effective.

 People people = peoples.get(position); textview_name.setText(people.name); //etc.. 

To set up an onItemClickListener listener like in ListView :

1) The root markup element (which contains everything else we write

 android:clickable="true" android:focusable="true" <!-- не знаю зачем --> android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground" <!-- опционально --> 

2) In the constructor of the holder set

 itemView.setOnClickListener(this); 

3) The holder itself inherits from the interface

 public class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements OnClickListener 

4) Implement the onClick(View v) method inside the holder

5) Create a listener variable in the adapter.

 private OnItemClickListener listener; 

6) Create an interface in the adapter

 public interface OnItemClickListener { void onItemClick(View v); //можно сразу передавать модель //void onItemClick(People p); //или позицию //void onItemClick(int position); } 

7) Create a method in the adapter

 public void setOnItemClickListener (OnItemClickListener listener) { this.listener = listener; } 

8) In the onClick method (see step 4) we write

 @Override public void onClick(View v) { switch(v.getId()) { case R.id.root_item_view: listener.onItemClick(v); //или модель //listener.onItemClick(peoples.get(getAdapterPosition())); //или позицию //listener.onItemClick(getAdapterPosition()); break; case ... case ... } } 

Now, in the activity / fragment, you can write

 RecyclerView rv = (RecyclerView) findViewById(...); rv.setLayoutManager(new Linear/*Grid/Staggered*/LayoutManager()); RecyclerAdapter adapter = new RecyclerAdapter(datalist); adapter.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() { @Override public void onItemClick(View v) { //ваша логика } }); rv.setAdapter(adapter);