RecyclerView blinking after notifyDatasetChanged()

Try using stable IDs in your RecyclerView.Adapter

setHasStableIds(true) and override getItemId(int position).

Without stable IDs, after notifyDataSetChanged(), ViewHolders usually assigned to not to same positions. That was the reason of blinking in my case.

You can find a good explanation here.

According to this issue page ....it is the default recycleview item change animation... You can turn it off.. try this

recyclerView.getItemAnimator().setSupportsChangeAnimations(false);

Change in latest version

Quoted from Android developer blog:

Note that this new API is not backward compatible. If you previously implemented an ItemAnimator, you can instead extend SimpleItemAnimator, which provides the old API by wrapping the new API. You’ll also notice that some methods have been entirely removed from ItemAnimator. For example, if you were calling recyclerView.getItemAnimator().setSupportsChangeAnimations(false), this code won’t compile anymore. You can replace it with:

ItemAnimator animator = recyclerView.getItemAnimator();
if (animator instanceof SimpleItemAnimator) {
  ((SimpleItemAnimator) animator).setSupportsChangeAnimations(false);
}

This simply worked:

recyclerView.getItemAnimator().setChangeDuration(0);

I have the same issue loading image from some urls and then imageView blinks. Solved by using

notifyItemRangeInserted()    

instead of

notifyDataSetChanged()

which avoids to reload those unchanged old datas.

try this to disable the default animation

ItemAnimator animator = recyclerView.getItemAnimator();

if (animator instanceof SimpleItemAnimator) {
  ((SimpleItemAnimator) animator).setSupportsChangeAnimations(false);
}

this the new way to disable the animation since android support 23

this old way will work for older version of the support library

recyclerView.getItemAnimator().setSupportsChangeAnimations(false)