Android RecyclerView : notifyDataSetChanged() IllegalStateException

You should move method 'setOnCheckedChangeListener()' to ViewHolder which is inner class on your adapter.

onBindViewHolder() is not a method that initialize ViewHolder. This method is step of refresh each recycler item. When you call notifyDataSetChanged(), onBindViewHolder() will be called as the number of each item times.

So If you notifyDataSetChanged() put into onCheckChanged() and initialize checkBox in onBindViewHolder(), you will get IllegalStateException because of circular method call.

click checkbox -> onCheckedChanged() -> notifyDataSetChanged() -> onBindViewHolder() -> set checkbox -> onChecked...

Simply, you can fix this by put one flag into Adapter.

try this,

private boolean onBind;

public ViewHolder(View itemView) {
    super(itemView);
    mCheckBox = (CheckBox) itemView.findViewById(R.id.checkboxId);
    mCheckBox.setOnCheckChangeListener(this);
}

@Override
public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
    if(!onBind) {
        // your process when checkBox changed
        // ...

        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
}

...

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(YourAdapter.ViewHolder viewHolder, int position) {
    // process other views 
    // ...

    onBind = true;
    viewHolder.mCheckBox.setChecked(trueOrFalse);
    onBind = false;
}

You can just reset the previous listener before you make changes and you won't get this exception.

private CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener checkedListener = new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() {                      
                        @Override
                        public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
                            //Do your stuff
                    });;

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(final ViewHolder holder, final int position) {
        holder.checkbox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(null);
        holder.checkbox.setChecked(condition);
        holder.checkbox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(checkedListener);
    }