Try this. It'll take care of equal spacing all around. Works both with List, Grid, and StaggeredGrid.
Edited
The updated code should handle most of the corner cases with spans, orientation, etc. Note that if using setSpanSizeLookup() with GridLayoutManager, setting setSpanIndexCacheEnabled() is recommended for performance reasons.
Note, it seems that with StaggeredGrid, there's seems to be a bug where the index of the children gets wacky and hard to track so the code below might not work very well with StaggeredGridLayoutManager.
public class ListSpacingDecoration extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration {
private static final int VERTICAL = OrientationHelper.VERTICAL;
private int orientation = -1;
private int spanCount = -1;
private int spacing;
private int halfSpacing;
public ListSpacingDecoration(Context context, @DimenRes int spacingDimen) {
spacing = context.getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(spacingDimen);
halfSpacing = spacing / 2;
}
public ListSpacingDecoration(int spacingPx) {
spacing = spacingPx;
halfSpacing = spacing / 2;
}
@Override
public void getItemOffsets(Rect outRect, View view, RecyclerView parent, RecyclerView.State state) {
super.getItemOffsets(outRect, view, parent, state);
if (orientation == -1) {
orientation = getOrientation(parent);
}
if (spanCount == -1) {
spanCount = getTotalSpan(parent);
}
int childCount = parent.getLayoutManager().getItemCount();
int childIndex = parent.getChildAdapterPosition(view);
int itemSpanSize = getItemSpanSize(parent, childIndex);
int spanIndex = getItemSpanIndex(parent, childIndex);
if (spanCount < 1) return;
setSpacings(outRect, parent, childCount, childIndex, itemSpanSize, spanIndex);
}
protected void setSpacings(Rect outRect, RecyclerView parent, int childCount, int childIndex, int itemSpanSize, int spanIndex) {
outRect.top = halfSpacing;
outRect.bottom = halfSpacing;
outRect.left = halfSpacing;
outRect.right = halfSpacing;
if (isTopEdge(parent, childCount, childIndex, itemSpanSize, spanIndex)) {
outRect.top = spacing;
}
if (isLeftEdge(parent, childCount, childIndex, itemSpanSize, spanIndex)) {
outRect.left = spacing;
}
if (isRightEdge(parent, childCount, childIndex, itemSpanSize, spanIndex)) {
outRect.right = spacing;
}
if (isBottomEdge(parent, childCount, childIndex, itemSpanSize, spanIndex)) {
outRect.bottom = spacing;
}
}
@SuppressWarnings("all")
protected int getTotalSpan(RecyclerView parent) {
RecyclerView.LayoutManager mgr = parent.getLayoutManager();
if (mgr instanceof GridLayoutManager) {
return ((GridLayoutManager) mgr).getSpanCount();
} else if (mgr instanceof StaggeredGridLayoutManager) {
return ((StaggeredGridLayoutManager) mgr).getSpanCount();
} else if (mgr instanceof LinearLayoutManager) {
return 1;
}
return -1;
}
@SuppressWarnings("all")
protected int getItemSpanSize(RecyclerView parent, int childIndex) {
RecyclerView.LayoutManager mgr = parent.getLayoutManager();
if (mgr instanceof GridLayoutManager) {
return ((GridLayoutManager) mgr).getSpanSizeLookup().getSpanSize(childIndex);
} else if (mgr instanceof StaggeredGridLayoutManager) {
return 1;
} else if (mgr instanceof LinearLayoutManager) {
return 1;
}
return -1;
}
@SuppressWarnings("all")
protected int getItemSpanIndex(RecyclerView parent, int childIndex) {
RecyclerView.LayoutManager mgr = parent.getLayoutManager();
if (mgr instanceof GridLayoutManager) {
return ((GridLayoutManager) mgr).getSpanSizeLookup().getSpanIndex(childIndex, spanCount);
} else if (mgr instanceof StaggeredGridLayoutManager) {
return childIndex % spanCount;
} else if (mgr instanceof LinearLayoutManager) {
return 0;
}
return -1;
}
@SuppressWarnings("all")
protected int getOrientation(RecyclerView parent) {
RecyclerView.LayoutManager mgr = parent.getLayoutManager();
if (mgr instanceof LinearLayoutManager) {
return ((LinearLayoutManager) mgr).getOrientation();
} else if (mgr instanceof GridLayoutManager) {
return ((GridLayoutManager) mgr).getOrientation();
} else if (mgr instanceof StaggeredGridLayoutManager) {
return ((StaggeredGridLayoutManager) mgr).getOrientation();
}
return VERTICAL;
}
protected boolean isLeftEdge(RecyclerView parent, int childCount, int childIndex, int itemSpanSize, int spanIndex) {
if (orientation == VERTICAL) {
return spanIndex == 0;
} else {
return (childIndex == 0) || isFirstItemEdgeValid((childIndex < spanCount), parent, childIndex);
}
}
protected boolean isRightEdge(RecyclerView parent, int childCount, int childIndex, int itemSpanSize, int spanIndex) {
if (orientation == VERTICAL) {
return (spanIndex + itemSpanSize) == spanCount;
} else {
return isLastItemEdgeValid((childIndex >= childCount - spanCount), parent, childCount, childIndex, spanIndex);
}
}
protected boolean isTopEdge(RecyclerView parent, int childCount, int childIndex, int itemSpanSize, int spanIndex) {
if (orientation == VERTICAL) {
return (childIndex == 0) || isFirstItemEdgeValid((childIndex < spanCount), parent, childIndex);
} else {
return spanIndex == 0;
}
}
protected boolean isBottomEdge(RecyclerView parent, int childCount, int childIndex, int itemSpanSize, int spanIndex) {
if (orientation == VERTICAL) {
return isLastItemEdgeValid((childIndex >= childCount - spanCount), parent, childCount, childIndex, spanIndex);
} else {
return (spanIndex + itemSpanSize) == spanCount;
}
}
protected boolean isFirstItemEdgeValid(boolean isOneOfFirstItems, RecyclerView parent, int childIndex) {
int totalSpanArea = 0;
if (isOneOfFirstItems) {
for (int i = childIndex; i >= 0; i--) {
totalSpanArea = totalSpanArea + getItemSpanSize(parent, i);
}
}
return isOneOfFirstItems && totalSpanArea <= spanCount;
}
protected boolean isLastItemEdgeValid(boolean isOneOfLastItems, RecyclerView parent, int childCount, int childIndex, int spanIndex) {
int totalSpanRemaining = 0;
if (isOneOfLastItems) {
for (int i = childIndex; i < childCount; i++) {
totalSpanRemaining = totalSpanRemaining + getItemSpanSize(parent, i);
}
}
return isOneOfLastItems && (totalSpanRemaining <= spanCount - spanIndex);
}
}
Hope it helps.