How to avoid blocking of scrolling itself when using setNestedScrollingEnabled(false)?

Question

Background

We have quite a complex layout that has CollapsingToolbarLayout in it, together with a RecyclerView at the bottom.

In certain cases, we temporarily disable the expanding/collapsing of the CollapsingToolbarLayout, by calling setNestedScrollingEnabled(boolean) on the RecyclerView.

The problem

This usually works fine.

However, on some (bit rare) cases, slow scrolling on the RecyclerView gets semi-blocked, meaning it tries to scroll back when scrolling down. It's as if it has 2 scrolling that fight each other (scroll up and scroll down):

The code to trigger this is as such:

res/layout/activity_scrolling.xml

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:context="com.example.user.myapplication.ScrollingActivity">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:id="@+id/app_bar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/app_bar_height"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
            app:contentScrim="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|exitUntilCollapsed|snap">

            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
                app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>
    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/nestedView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"/>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/app_bar"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|end">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/disableNestedScrollingButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="disable"/>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/enableNestedScrollingButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="enable"
            />
    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

ScrollingActivity.java

public class ScrollingActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_scrolling);
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
        final RecyclerView nestedView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.nestedView);
        findViewById(R.id.disableNestedScrollingButton).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(final View v) {
                nestedView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);
            }
        });
        findViewById(R.id.enableNestedScrollingButton).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(final View v) {
                nestedView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(true);
            }
        });
        nestedView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
        nestedView.setAdapter(new Adapter() {
            @Override
            public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(final ViewGroup parent, final int viewType) {
                return new ViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(
                        android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                        parent,
                        false)) {
                };
            }

            @Override
            public void onBindViewHolder(final ViewHolder holder, final int position) {
                ((TextView) holder.itemView.findViewById(android.R.id.text1)).setText("item " + position);
            }

            @Override
            public int getItemCount() {
                return 100;
            }
        });
    }

}

What I've tried

At first I thought it's because of something else (I thought it's a weird combination with DrawerLayout), but then I've found a minimal sample to show it, and it's just as I thought: it's all because of the setNestedScrollingEnabled.

I tried to report about this on Google's website (here), hoping it will get fixed if it's a real bug. If you wish to try it out, or watch the videos of the issue, go there, as I can't upload them all here (too large and too many files).

I've also tried to use special flags as instructed on other posts (examples: here, here, here, here and here) , but none helped. In fact each of them had an issue, whether it's staying in expanded mode, or scrolling in a different way than what I do.

The questions

1. Is this a known issue? Why does it happen?

2. Is there a way to overcome this?

3. Is there perhaps an alternative to calling this function of setNestedScrollingEnabled ? One without any issues of scrolling or locking the state of the CollapsingToolbarLayout ?

Answer 1

I had to solve a similar issue and did it using a custom behaviour on the AppBarLayout. Everything works great. By overriding onStartNestedScroll in the custom behaviour it is possible to block to collapsing toolbar layout from expanding or collapsing while keeping the scroll view (NestedScrollView) in my case, working as expected. I explained the details here, hope it helps.

private class AppBarLayoutBehavior : AppBarLayout.Behavior() {
    var canDrag = true
    var acceptsNestedScroll = true

    init {
        setDragCallback(object : AppBarLayout.Behavior.DragCallback() {
            override fun canDrag(appBarLayout: AppBarLayout): Boolean {
                // Allow/Do not allow dragging down/up to expand/collapse the layout
                return canDrag
            }
        })
    }

    override fun onStartNestedScroll(parent: CoordinatorLayout,
                                     child: AppBarLayout,
                                     directTargetChild: View,
                                     target: View,
                                     nestedScrollAxes: Int,
                                     type: Int): Boolean {
        // Refuse/Accept any nested scroll event
        return acceptsNestedScroll
    }}

Answer 2

I want to present a nice alternative, mainly based on the one here :

AppBarLayoutEx.kt

class AppBarLayoutEx : AppBarLayout {
    private var isAppBarExpanded = true
    private val behavior = AppBarLayoutBehavior()
    private var onStateChangedListener: (Boolean) -> Unit = {}
    var enableExpandAndCollapseByDraggingToolbar: Boolean
        get() = behavior.canDrag
        set(value) {
            behavior.canDrag = value
        }

    var enableExpandAndCollapseByDraggingContent: Boolean
        get() = behavior.acceptsNestedScroll
        set(value) {
            behavior.acceptsNestedScroll = value
        }

    constructor(context: Context) : super(context)
    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet) : super(context, attrs)

    init {
        addOnOffsetChangedListener(
                AppBarLayout.OnOffsetChangedListener { _, verticalOffset ->
                    isAppBarExpanded = verticalOffset == 0
                    onStateChangedListener(isAppBarExpanded)
                })
    }

    override fun setLayoutParams(params: ViewGroup.LayoutParams?) {
        super.setLayoutParams(params)
        (params as CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams).behavior = behavior
    }

    fun toggleExpandedState() {
        setExpanded(!isAppBarExpanded, true)
    }

    fun setOnExpandAndCollapseListener(onStateChangedListener: (Boolean) -> Unit) {
        this.onStateChangedListener = onStateChangedListener
    }

    private class AppBarLayoutBehavior : AppBarLayout.Behavior() {
        var canDrag = true
        var acceptsNestedScroll = true

        init {
            setDragCallback(object : AppBarLayout.Behavior.DragCallback() {
                override fun canDrag(appBarLayout: AppBarLayout) = canDrag
            })
        }

        override fun onStartNestedScroll(parent: CoordinatorLayout, child: AppBarLayout, directTargetChild: View,
                                         target: View, nestedScrollAxes: Int, type: Int) = acceptsNestedScroll
    }
}

Usage: besides using it in the layout XML file, you can disable/enable the expanding of it using:

appBarLayout.enableExpandAndCollapseByDraggingToolbar = true/false

appBarLayout.enableExpandAndCollapseByDraggingContent = true/false

Answer 3

This is an alternate approach to achieving the same goal as this answer. While that answer used Reflection, this answer does not, but the reasoning remains the same.

Why is this happening?

The problem is that RecyclerView sometimes uses a stale value for the member variable mScrollOffset. mScrollOffset is set in only two places in RecyclerView: dispatchNestedPreScroll and dispatchNestedScroll. We are only concerned with dispatchNestedPreScroll. This method is invoked by RecyclerView#onTouchEvent when it handles MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE events.

The following is from the documentation for dispatchNestedPreScroll.

dispatchNestedPreScroll

boolean dispatchNestedPreScroll (int dx, int dy, int[] consumed, int[] offsetInWindow)

Dispatch one step of a nested scroll in progress before this view consumes any portion of it.

Nested pre-scroll events are to nested scroll events what touch intercept is to touch. dispatchNestedPreScroll offers an opportunity for the parent view in a nested scrolling operation to consume some or all of the scroll operation before the child view consumes it.

...

offsetInWindow int: Optional. If not null, on return this will contain the offset in local view coordinates of this view from before this operation to after it completes. View implementations may use this to adjust expected input coordinate tracking.

offsetInWindow is actually an int[2] with the second index representing the y shift to be applied to the RecyclerView due to nested scrolling.

RecyclerView#DispatchNestedPrescroll resolves to a method with the same name in NestedScrollingChildHelper.

When RecyclerView calls dispatchNestedPreScroll, mScrollOffset is used as the offsetInWindow argument. So any changes made to offsetInWindow directly updates mScrollOffset. dispatchNestedPreScroll updates mScrollOffset as long as nested scrolling is in effect. If nested scrolling is not in effect, then mScrollOffset is not updated and proceeds with the value that was last set by dispatchNestedPreScroll. Thus, when nested scrolling is turned off, the value of mScrollOffset becomes immediately stale but RecyclerView continues to use it.

The correct value of mScrollOffset[1] upon return from dispatchNestedPreScroll is the amount to adjust for input coordinate tracking (see above). In RecyclerView the following lines adjusts the y touch coordinate:

mLastTouchY = y - mScrollOffset[1];

If mScrollOffset[1] is, let's say, -30 (because it is stale and should be zero) then mLastTouchY will be off by +30 pixels (--30=+30). The effect of this miscalculation is that it will appear that the touch occurred further down the screen than it really did. So, a slow downward scroll will actually scrolls up and an upward scroll will scroll faster. (If a downward scroll is fast enough to overcome this 30px barrier, then downward scrolling will occur but more slowly than it should.) Upward scrolling will be overly quick since the app thinks more space has been covered.

mScrollOffset will continue as a stale variable until nested scrolling is turned on and dispatchNestedPreScroll once again reports the correct value in mScrollOffset.

Approach

Since mScrollOffset[1] has a stale value under certain circumstances, the goal is to set it to the correct value under those circumstances. This value should be zero when nested scrolling is not taking place, i.e., When the AppBar is expanded or collapsed. Unfortunately, mScrollOffset is local to RecyclerView and there is no setter for it. To gain access to mScrollOffset without resorting to Reflection, a custom RecyclerView is created that overrides dispatchNestedPreScroll. The fourth agument is offsetInWindow which is the variable we need to change.

A stale mScrollOffset occurs whenever nested scrolling is disabled for the RecyclerView. An additional condition we will impose is that the AppBar must be idle so we can safely say that mScrollOffset[1] should be zero. This is not an issue since the CollapsingToolbarLayout specifies snap in the scroll flags.

In the sample app, ScrollingActivity has been modified to record when the AppBar is expanded and closed. A callback has also been created (clampPrescrollOffsetListener) that will return true when our two conditions are met. Our overridden dispatchNestedPreScroll will invoke this callback and clamp mScrollOffset[1] to zero on a true response.

The updated source file for ScrollingActivity is presented below as is the custom RecyclerView - MyRecyclerView. The XML layout file must be changed to reflect the custom MyRecyclerView.

ScrollingActivity

public class ScrollingActivity extends AppCompatActivity
        implements MyRecyclerView.OnClampPrescrollOffsetListener {

    private CollapsingToolbarLayout mCollapsingToolbarLayout;
    private AppBarLayout mAppBarLayout;
    private MyRecyclerView mNestedView;
    // This variable will be true when the app bar is completely open or completely collapsed.
    private boolean mAppBarIdle = true;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_scrolling);
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        mNestedView = (MyRecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.nestedView);
        mAppBarLayout = (AppBarLayout) findViewById(R.id.app_bar);
        mCollapsingToolbarLayout = (CollapsingToolbarLayout) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_layout);

        // Set the listener for the patch code.
        mNestedView.setOnClampPrescrollOffsetListener(this);

        // Listener to determine when the app bar is collapsed or fully open (idle).
        mAppBarLayout.addOnOffsetChangedListener(new AppBarLayout.OnOffsetChangedListener() {
            @Override
            public final void onOffsetChanged(AppBarLayout appBarLayout, int verticalOffset) {
                mAppBarIdle = verticalOffset == 0
                        || verticalOffset <= appBarLayout.getTotalScrollRange();
            }
        });
        findViewById(R.id.disableNestedScrollingButton).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(final View v) {
                // If the AppBar is fully expanded or fully collapsed (idle), then disable
                // expansion and apply the patch; otherwise, set a flag to disable the expansion
                // and apply the patch when the AppBar is idle.
                setExpandEnabled(false);

            }
        });
        findViewById(R.id.enableNestedScrollingButton).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(final View v) {
                setExpandEnabled(true);
            }
        });
        mNestedView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
        mNestedView.setAdapter(new Adapter() {
            @Override
            public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(final ViewGroup parent, final int viewType) {
                return new ViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(
                        android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                        parent,
                        false)) {
                };
            }

            @Override
            public void onBindViewHolder(final ViewHolder holder, final int position) {
                ((TextView) holder.itemView.findViewById(android.R.id.text1)).setText("item " + position);
            }

            @Override
            public int getItemCount() {
                return 100;
            }
        });
    }

    private void setExpandEnabled(boolean enabled) {
        mNestedView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(enabled);
    }

    // Return "true" when the app bar is idle and nested scrolling is disabled. This is a signal
    // to the custom RecyclerView to clamp the y prescroll offset to zero.
    @Override
    public boolean clampPrescrollOffsetListener() {
        return mAppBarIdle && !mNestedView.isNestedScrollingEnabled();
    }

    private static final String TAG = "ScrollingActivity";
}

MyRecyclerView

public class MyRecyclerView extends RecyclerView {
    private OnClampPrescrollOffsetListener mPatchListener;

    public MyRecyclerView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public MyRecyclerView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MyRecyclerView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    // Just a call to super plus code to force offsetInWindow[1] to zero if the patchlistener
    // instructs it.
    @Override
    public boolean dispatchNestedPreScroll(int dx, int dy, int[] consumed, int[] offsetInWindow) {
        boolean returnValue;
        int currentOffset;
        returnValue = super.dispatchNestedPreScroll(dx, dy, consumed, offsetInWindow);
        currentOffset = offsetInWindow[1];
        Log.d(TAG, "<<<<dispatchNestedPreScroll: " + currentOffset);
        if (mPatchListener.clampPrescrollOffsetListener() && offsetInWindow[1] != 0) {
            Log.d(TAG, "<<<<dispatchNestedPreScroll: " + currentOffset + " -> 0");
            offsetInWindow[1] = 0;
        }
        return returnValue;
    }

    public void setOnClampPrescrollOffsetListener(OnClampPrescrollOffsetListener patchListener) {
        mPatchListener = patchListener;
    }

    public interface OnClampPrescrollOffsetListener {
        boolean clampPrescrollOffsetListener();
    }

    private static final String TAG = "MyRecyclerView";
}

Answer 4

I believe that this problem is related to the collapsing toolbar snapping into place (either closed or open) and leaving a vertical offset variable (mScrollOffset[1] in RecyclerView) with a non-zero value that subsequently biases the scroll - slowing or reversing the scroll in one direction and speeding it up in the other. This variable only seems to be set in NestedScrollingChildHelper if nested scrolling is enabled. So, whatever value mScrollOffset[1] has goes unchanged once nest scrolling is disabled.

To reliably reproduce this issue, you can cause the toolbar to snap into place then immediately click disable. See this video for a demonstration. I believe, that the magnitude of the issue varies by how much "snapping" occurs.

If I drag the toolbar to the fully open or closed position and don't let it "snap", then I have not been able to reproduce this problem and mScrollOffset[1] is set to zero which I think is the right value. I have also reproduced the problem by removing snap from the layout_scrollFlags of the collapsing toolbar in the layout and placing the toolbar in a partially open state.

If you want to play around with this, you can put your demo app into debug mode and observe the value of mScrollOffset[1] in RecyclerView#onTouchEvent. Also take a look at NestedScrollingChildHelper's dispatchNestedScroll and dispatchNestedPreScroll methods to see how the offset is set only when nested scrolling is enabled.

So, how to fix this? mScrollOffset is private toRecyclerView and it is not immediately obvious how to subclass anything to change the value of mScrollOffset[1]. That would leave Reflection, but that may not be desirable to you. Maybe another reader has an idea about how to approach this or knows of some secret sauce. I will repost if anything occurs to me.

Edit: I have provided a new ScrollingActivity.java class that overcomes this issue. It does use reflection and applies a patch to set mScrollOffset[1] of RecyclerView to zero when the disable scroll button has been pressed and the AppBar is idle. I have done some preliminary testing and it is working. Here is the gist. (See updated gist below.)

Second edit: I was able to get the toolbar to snap in funny ways and get stuck in the middle without the patch, so it doesn't look like the patch is causing that particular issue. I can get the toolbar to bounce from fully open to collapsed by scrolling down fast enough in the unpatched app.

I also took another look at what the patch is doing and I think that it will behave itself: The variable is private and referred to only in one place after scrolling is turned off. With scrolling enabled, the variable is always reset before use. The real answer is for Google to fix this problem. Until they do, I think this may be the closest you can get to an acceptable work-around with this particular design. (I have posted an updated gist that addresses potential issues with a quick click-around leaving switches in a potential unsuitable state.)

Regardless, the underlying issue has been identified and you have a reliable way to reproduce the problem, so you can more easily verify other proposed solutions.

I hope this helps.

Answer 5

inside the recycler view, to scrolling smooth

android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false" 

to overlap the cardView in the toolbar

 app:behavior_overlapTop = "24dp" 

Try this code for CollapsingToolbar:

  <android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/background"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:id="@+id/app_bar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/app_bar_height"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
            app:contentScrim="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|exitUntilCollapsed">

            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
                app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
                app:title="Title" />

        </android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>
    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>


    <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
        app:behavior_overlapTop="@dimen/behavior_overlap_top"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior">

        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/linearLayout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                android:id="@+id/recycler_view
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_margin="@dimen/text_min_padding"
                android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
                android:scrollbarSize="2dp"
                android:scrollbarStyle="outsideInset"
                android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@color/colorAccent"
                android:scrollbars="vertical" />

        </LinearLayout>

    </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Screenshot

Answer 6

Actually, you might be looking at the problem in the wrong way.

The only thing you need is to set the Toolbar flags accordingly. You don't really anything else so I would say that your layout should be simplified to:

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:context="com.example.user.myapplication.ScrollingActivity">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
         android:id="@+id/app_bar"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="@dimen/app_bar_height"
         android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
         android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
            app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
            app:title="Title" />

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/nestedView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"            
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"/>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/app_bar"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|end">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/disableNestedScrollingButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="disable"/>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/enableNestedScrollingButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="enable"
            />
    </LinearLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Then when you wish to disable the collapsing just set your toolbar flags:

// To disable collapsing
AppBarLayout.LayoutParams params = (AppBarLayout.LayoutParams) toolbar.getLayoutParams();
params.setScrollFlags(AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.SCROLL_FLAG_SNAP);
toolbar.setLayoutParams(params);

And to enable

// To enable collapsing
AppBarLayout.LayoutParams params = (AppBarLayout.LayoutParams) toolbar.getLayoutParams();
params.setScrollFlags(AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.SCROLL_FLAG_SCROLL|AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.SCROLL_FLAG_ENTER_ALWAYS);
toolbar.setLayoutParams(params);

Hold a reference to the layout params if you are changing instead of getting it all the time.

If you need to have the CollapsingToolbarLayout get from and set the LayoutParams to that View instead, update the flags the same way but now adding the appBarLayout.setExpanded(true/false)

Note: Using the setScrollFlags clears all previous flags, so be careful and set all required flags when using this method.

Answer 7

Use following code, it works fine for me:

lockAppBarClosed();
ViewCompat.setNestedScrollingEnabled(recyclerView, false);   // to lock the CollapsingToolbarLayout

and implement the following methods:

private void setAppBarDragging(final boolean isEnabled) {
        CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams params =
                (CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams) appBarLayout.getLayoutParams();
        AppBarLayout.Behavior behavior = new AppBarLayout.Behavior();
        behavior.setDragCallback(new AppBarLayout.Behavior.DragCallback() {
            @Override
            public boolean canDrag(AppBarLayout appBarLayout) {
                return isEnabled;
            }
        });
        params.setBehavior(behavior);
    }

    public void unlockAppBarOpen() {
        appBarLayout.setExpanded(true, false);
        appBarLayout.setActivated(true);
        setAppBarDragging(false);
    }

    public void lockAppBarClosed() {
        appBarLayout.setExpanded(false, false);
        appBarLayout.setActivated(false);
        setAppBarDragging(false);

    }

Answer 8

As @Moinkhan points out, you could try wrapping the RecyclerView and next elements in a NestedScrollView like this, this should resolve your problem of scrolling alongside with your collapsing toolbar layout:

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:context="com.example.user.myapplication.ScrollingActivity">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:id="@+id/app_bar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/app_bar_height"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

        <android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
            app:contentScrim="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|exitUntilCollapsed|snap">

            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
                app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>
    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="fill_vertical"
        android:fillViewport="true"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior">

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

            <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                android:id="@+id/nestedView"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"/>

        </RelativeLayout>

    </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/app_bar"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|end">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/disableNestedScrollingButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="disable"/>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/enableNestedScrollingButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="enable"
            />
    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

In case the contents of the recyclerview are not displayed you can follow this thread to solve that issue How to use RecyclerView inside NestedScrollView?.

Hope it helps.