Why does RecyclerView keep its scroll position when the screen is rotated?

Question

Android

There is data for the list, stored in LiveData in the ViewModel. The activity receives data from there and sets it to the adapter (and when creating the adapter, an empty list is passed to it).

The scroll position of the list remains the same as it was at the beginning, although I did nothing specifically for this.

Why is this happening?

Answer 1

Because the recycler, like any normal view, can save its state. The layout manager has special methods for this even.