RecyclerView Swipe with a view below it

My understanding of how this is done is that one would put two views in the xml that would be displayed per line in your recyclerview.

So for example, this would be my adapter:

public class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {
    public static class ExampleViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        public TextView background;
        public TextView foreground;

        public ExampleViewHolder(View v) {
            super(v);
            background = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.background);
            foreground = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.foreground);
        }

        @Override
        public void onBindViewHolder(final RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, final int position) {
            if (holder instanceof ExampleViewHolder) {
                ((ExampleViewHolder) holder).background.setBackgroundColor(); // do your manipulation of background and foreground here.
            }
        }

        @Override
        public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent,
                                                          int viewType) {

            View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext())
                    .inflate(R.layout.example, parent, false);
            return new ExampleViewHolder(v);
        }


    }
}

Each line in the recyclerview is pulling the xml layout from R.layout.example. Therefore, to create a view underneath, you can just use relativelayout or framelayout to create the views on top of one another:

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/background"
        />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/foreground"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Then if you do not want to use a library for the swipe, you can copy this class from google and subsequently modified by Bruno Romeu Nunes:

https://github.com/heruoxin/Clip-Stack/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/catchingnow/tinyclipboardmanager/SwipeableRecyclerViewTouchListener.java

The class will require you to create a swipe listener:

swipeTouchListener =
        new SwipeableRecyclerViewTouchListener(mRecyclerView,
                new SwipeableRecyclerViewTouchListener.SwipeListener() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean canSwipe(int position) {
                        if (position == totalPost.size() - 1 && !connected) {
                            return false;
                        }
                        return true;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onDismissedBySwipeLeft(RecyclerView recyclerView, int[] reverseSortedPositions) {
                        for (int position : reverseSortedPositions) {
                            //change some data if you swipe left
                        }
                        myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onDismissedBySwipeRight(RecyclerView recyclerView, int[] reverseSortedPositions) {
                        for (int position : reverseSortedPositions) {
                            //change some data if you swipe right
                        }
                        myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                    }
                });

Then simply link it with your recyclerview:

    mRecyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(swipeTouchListener);

I like the @erik approach but I would recommend to drawing what you want via passed Canvas to onChildDraw() function. e.g. item background or icon.

@Override 
public void onChildDraw(Canvas c, RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, float dX, float dY, int actionState, boolean isCurrentlyActive) {
    final ColorDrawable background = new ColorDrawable(Color.RED);
    background.setBounds(0, itemView.getTop(),   itemView.getLeft() + dX, itemView.getBottom());
    background.draw(c);

    super.onChildDraw(c, recyclerView, viewHolder, dX, dY, actionState, isCurrentlyActive);
}

In this approach, you will draw what needed on demand and no need to inflate unused views

I was investigating the same issue.
What i ended up doing was, in the layout that contained the recyclerView, I added a simple FrameLayout called 'swipe_bg' of the same height as one of my RecyclerView.ViewHolder items. I set its visibility to "gone", and placed it under the RecyclerView

Then in my activity where i set the ItemTouchHelper, I override the onChildDraw like so..

ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback swipeCallback = new ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback(0, ItemTouchHelper.LEFT|ItemTouchHelper.RIGHT) {

    @Override
    public void onChildDraw(Canvas c, RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, float dX, float dY, int actionState, boolean isCurrentlyActive) {
         View itemView = viewHolder.itemView;
         Imageview swipe_bg = itemView.findViewById(R.id.imageview_swipe_background);
         swipe_bg.setY(itemView.getTop());
         if (isCurrentlyActive) {
             swipe_bg.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
         } else {
             swipe_bg.setVisibility(View.GONE);
         }
         super.onChildDraw(c, recyclerView, viewHolder, dX, dY, actionState, isCurrentlyActive);
    }
};

Don't know if that is the best way, but seemed like the simplest way.

Simple solution without allocation or drawing on canvas. SomeAdapter.SomeVH should contain upper view and under view. And with this approach we will be able to swipe only upper view (container), exposing under view (with label, icon whatever you want)

class SomeTouchHelper extends ItemTouchHelper.Callback {
...
    @Override
    public void onChildDraw(Canvas c, RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder,
            float dX, float dY, int actionState, boolean isCurrentlyActive) {
        if (actionState == ItemTouchHelper.ACTION_STATE_SWIPE) {
            if (viewHolder instanceof SomeAdapter.SomeVH) {
                SomeAdapter.SomeVH someViewHolder
                        = (SomeAdapter.SomeVH) viewHolder;
                ViewCompat.setTranslationX(someViewHolder.mContainer, dX);
            }
        } else {
            super.onChildDraw(c, recyclerView, viewHolder, dX, dY, actionState, isCurrentlyActive);
        }
    }
...
}

Attach it

new ItemTouchHelper(SomeTouchHelper).attachToRecyclerView(recyclerView);

don't forget to restore initial view state of SomeVH in adapter onViewRecycled()

public void onViewRecycled(final SomeVH holder) {
        if (holder.mContainer != null) {
            holder.mContainer.setTranslationX(0);//restore position
        }
}