# Swipe To Dismiss RecyclerView Items

DevFeed: [Swipe To Dismiss RecyclerView Items](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/swipe-to-dismiss-recyclerview-items-22840.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://androidessence.com/swipe-to-dismiss-recyclerview-items/>)

Author: Adam McNeilly

Published: 2015-09-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Android Essence](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/android-essence.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>)

Tags: [callback](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/callback.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial showing how to implement swipe-to-dismiss behavior for RecyclerView items with ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback. It explains removing the swiped item from the adapter and attaching ItemTouchHelper to the RecyclerView.

## Source excerpt

In my last post I broke down the differences between the RecyclerView and a ListView. One of the benefits of the RecyclerView that I touched on was the ItemTouchHelper. This class is used to handle the Swipe-To-Dismiss and Drag-N-Drop behaviors of a RecyclerView. In this post I am going to teach you how to swipe to dismiss RecyclerView items using the sample application seen here: