Recycler View Internals — I: Birth Of ViewHolder

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Kotlin Weekly #261

We all have been working with RecyclerViews for way long and are very familiar using its API to display our list efficiently, but many have just touched its surface on a very high level, few of us have dug deep into it and tried to figure how internally it works. I’m one of the same, I have a generalised idea of what might be happening but I never looked at its implementation from Android open…