How to scroll to the bottom of a RecyclerView? scrollToPosition doesn't work

I was looking at this post to find the answer but... I think everyone on this post was facing the same scenario as me: scrollToPosition() was fully ignored, for an evident reason.

What I was using?

recyclerView.scrollToPosition(items.size());

... what WORKED?

recyclerView.scrollToPosition(items.size() - 1);

Just set setStackFromEnd=true or setReverseLayout=true so that LLM will layout items from end.

The difference between these two is that setStackFromEnd will set the view to show the last element, the layout direction will remain the same. (So, in an left-to-right horizontal Recycler View, the last element will be shown and scrolling to the left will show the earlier elements)

Whereas setReverseLayout will change the order of the elements added by the Adapter. The layout will start from the last element, which will be the left-most in an LTR Recycler View and then, scrolling to the right will show the earlier elements.

Sample:

final LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
linearLayoutManager.setReverseLayout(true);
_listView.setLayoutManager(linearLayoutManager);

See documentation for details.

I know its late to answer here, still if anybody want to know solution is below

conversationView.smoothScrollToPosition(conversationView.getAdapter().getItemCount() - 1);