How to make first item in RecyclerView+StaggeredGridLayoutManager full screen width?

Question

Android

There is a RecyclerView with a StaggeredGridLayoutManager connected to it to display items in two columns. How to achieve that the first element is always on top and takes up all the space horizontally?

Answer 1

private View createLayoutParams(View targetView) {
        StaggeredGridLayoutManager.LayoutParams params;
        params = new StaggeredGridLayoutManager.LayoutParams(StaggeredGridLayoutManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, StaggeredGridLayoutManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        params.setFullSpan(true);
        targetView.setLayoutParams(params);
        return targetView;
    }

in the method throw a view that needs to be stretched to full screen