Don't collapse Toolbar when RecyclerView fits the screen

Solution 1:

Final Solution (thanks Michał Z.)

Methods to turn off/on Toolbar scrolling:

public void turnOffToolbarScrolling() {
    Toolbar mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    AppBarLayout appBarLayout = (AppBarLayout) findViewById(R.id.appbar_layout);

    //turn off scrolling
    AppBarLayout.LayoutParams toolbarLayoutParams = (AppBarLayout.LayoutParams) mToolbar.getLayoutParams();
    toolbarLayoutParams.setScrollFlags(0);
    mToolbar.setLayoutParams(toolbarLayoutParams);

    CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams appBarLayoutParams = (CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams) appBarLayout.getLayoutParams();
    appBarLayoutParams.setBehavior(null);
    appBarLayout.setLayoutParams(appBarLayoutParams);
}

public void turnOnToolbarScrolling() {
    Toolbar mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    AppBarLayout appBarLayout = (AppBarLayout) findViewById(R.id.appbar_layout);

    //turn on scrolling
    AppBarLayout.LayoutParams toolbarLayoutParams = (AppBarLayout.LayoutParams) mToolbar.getLayoutParams();
    toolbarLayoutParams.setScrollFlags(AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.SCROLL_FLAG_SCROLL | AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.SCROLL_FLAG_ENTER_ALWAYS);
    mToolbar.setLayoutParams(toolbarLayoutParams);

    CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams appBarLayoutParams = (CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams) appBarLayout.getLayoutParams();
    appBarLayoutParams.setBehavior(new AppBarLayout.Behavior());
    appBarLayout.setLayoutParams(appBarLayoutParams);
}

Find out if last item of RecyclerView is visible in my Fragment.
If yes, disable scrolling:

public void updateToolbarBehaviour(){
    if (mLayoutManager.findLastCompletelyVisibleItemPosition() == items.size()-1) {
        ((MainActivity) getActivity()).turnOffToolbarScrolling();
    } else {
        ((MainActivity)getActivity()).turnOnToolbarScrolling();
    }
}

Solution 2:

RecyclerView now (since version 23.2) supports wrap_content. Just use wrap_content as the height.

Solution 3:

You can check if the last item in RecyclerView is visible. If it's not then turn off scrolling programmatically using this method:

            //turn off scrolling
            AppBarLayout.LayoutParams toolbarLayoutParams = (AppBarLayout.LayoutParams) mToolbar.getLayoutParams();
            toolbarLayoutParams.setScrollFlags(0);
            mToolbar.setLayoutParams(toolbarLayoutParams);

            CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams appBarLayoutParams = (CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams) appBarLayout.getLayoutParams();
            appBarLayoutParams.setBehavior(null);
            appBarLayout.setLayoutParams(appBarLayoutParams);