Recyclerview - Overlap items bottom to top

As of 2020 there is new interface ChildDrawingOrderCallback. It defines the order of drawing elements in recycler view. Can be used like so:

class BackwardsDrawingOrderCallback : RecyclerView.ChildDrawingOrderCallback {
    override fun onGetChildDrawingOrder(childCount: Int, i: Int) = childCount - i - 1
}

And then

recyclerView.setChildDrawingOrderCallback(BackwardsDrawingOrderCallback())

So there is no need to set neither reverse order nor stack from end anymore.

Try this way and render your recycler view in reverse direction.

LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
        layoutManager.setReverseLayout(true);
        layoutManager.setStackFromEnd(true);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

Here is the working example GitHub Link