# Kotlin Recipes for Android (II): RecyclerView and DiffUtil

DevFeed: [Kotlin Recipes for Android (II): RecyclerView and DiffUtil](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kotlin-recipes-for-android-ii-recyclerview-and-diffutil-27220.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://antonioleiva.com/recyclerview-diffutil-kotlin>)

Published: 2016-09-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Antonio Leiva](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/antonio-leiva.md>)

Topics: [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [recyclerview](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/recyclerview.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [recyclerview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recyclerview.md>)

## AI overview

A Kotlin tutorial showing how to simplify Android RecyclerView updates with DiffUtil. It progresses from direct adapter notifications to delegation and extension functions for calculating item changes and identifying matching items.

## Source excerpt

Everything Android, Kotlin and other random topics