How to get only selected checkboxes in a RecyclerView

Updated 18 December 2016

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Hello Everyone, this one is again very easy to implement.
The issue I faced while using check-boxes inside a Recycler View is that when I check one of the checkboxes and scroll up or down, I see many other are selected and the reason for that is that Recycler View checks the checkbox according to the current view and the holder keeps that child selected. When you log or use the selected data you will find a lot more options than selected.

For a Recycler View to work fine you need to set an Adapter and that Adapter in turns calls the ViewHolder class and you override ” onBindViewHolder ” method of the Adapter to bind the view.
When you override this method you bind all the entities of the view that are of use to you and probably set all the listeners that need to work on any of the event triggered with respect to the entities of the view inflated.
But when you do the same with the check-boxes, they don’t work exactly the same as you want them to be.

APPROACH :

All you need to do is to change the state of checkbox as per the item of the list selected and hold that value.
Don’t just change the state of the checkbox.

And for each checkbox you need to first set the OnCheckedChangeListener to null.

Look at the piece of code and you will get it :

Just for a better insight , here is my full Adapter class:

Hope this works for you too.

Keep coding and keep sharing. : )

References : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32427889/checkbox-in-recyclerview-keeps-on-checking-different-items

 

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