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Android Android Fragments Introducing Fragments Checking It Twice

vicente lee
vicente lee
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Posted by vicente lee
vicente lee
6,271 Points

LinearLayoutManager

I'm still confused about what the LayoutManager does. Why do we need a LayoutManager, is this because we are working with fragments? I don't remember using LayoutManager when working with the usual adapters.

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Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
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Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

It's not because we're working with a fragment. It's because we're using a RecyclerView, which requires a layout manager so that it knows how we want the items to be displayed, in a vertical or horizontal linear scrolling list, in a grid, or in a staggered grid. You can read more about RecyclerView in this tutorial:

https://guides.codepath.com/android/Using-the-RecyclerView#components-of-a-recyclerview