# Creating Reusable Android RecyclerView Adapters with Multiple View Types

DevFeed: [Creating Reusable Android RecyclerView Adapters with Multiple View Types](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/joe-s-great-adapter-hell-escape-25438.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hannesdorfmann.com/android/adapter-delegates/>)

Author: Hannes Dorfmann

Published: 2015-07-28T08:46:10Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Hannes Dorfmann](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hannes-dorfmann.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/implementation.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [SDK](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdk.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/implementation.md>), [recyclerview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recyclerview.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains the challenges of creating reusable Android RecyclerView adapters for multiple view types. It uses a fictional app-development story to show how an app grows from displaying different accessory items to adding more screens and advertisement banners.

## Source excerpt

Let me tell you a story about Joe Somebody an android developer at MyLittleZoo Inc. and how he walked through the hell while trying to create reusable RecyclerView Adapters with different view types and how he finally managed to implement reusable Adapters painlessly. Once upon a time Joe Somebody, an android developer, was working for a young startup called MyLittleZoo Inc.