RecyclerView blocks swipe in MotionLayout

Issue

I have problem with swipe in my views in front (add folder kind of dialog) of recycler view. When I perform the swipe gesture it's just scrolling in RecyclerView behind it.

However when I tried to set visibility of RecyclerView to GONE, it was working well so I suspect there is something wrong with focus or Recycler it self, although I clear focus when the scenes change.

This is video without RecyclerView

And this is video with the RecyclerView

Methods where I show settings and folder dialog:

private void showSettings(){
        if (!settingBox.hasFocus()){
            settingBox.requestFocus();
        }

        foldersGridRecyclerView.clearFocus();


        root.transitionToState(R.id.settingsShowed);
    }

    private void showAddFolderBox(){
        if (!addFolderBox.hasFocus()){
            addFolderBox.requestFocus();
        }

        foldersGridRecyclerView.clearFocus();

        root.transitionToState(R.id.addFolderBoxShowed);
    }

Here is my grapth file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<MotionScene xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <ConstraintSet android:id="@+id/addFolderBoxHidden">
        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/addFolderBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="330dp"
            android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/add_folder_background"
            android:paddingHorizontal="17dp"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHeight_default="percent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>

        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/settingsBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="600dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/settings_bar_background"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent"
            android:translationZ="6dp"/>

    </ConstraintSet>

    <ConstraintSet android:id="@+id/addFolderBoxShowed">
        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/addFolderBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="330dp"
            android:layout_marginBottom="-330dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/add_folder_background"
            android:paddingHorizontal="17dp"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHeight_default="percent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>

        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/settingsBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="600dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/settings_bar_background"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent"
            android:translationZ="6dp"/>
    </ConstraintSet>

    <ConstraintSet android:id="@+id/settingsHidden">
        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/addFolderBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="330dp"
            android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/add_folder_background"
            android:paddingHorizontal="17dp"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHeight_default="percent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>

        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/settingsBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="600dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/settings_bar_background"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent"
            android:translationZ="6dp"/>
    </ConstraintSet>

    <ConstraintSet android:id="@+id/settingsShowed">
        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/addFolderBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="330dp"
            android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/add_folder_background"
            android:paddingHorizontal="17dp"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHeight_default="percent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>
        <Constraint
            android:id="@+id/settingsBox"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="600dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="-600dp"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:background="@drawable/settings_bar_background"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent"
            android:translationZ="6dp"/>
    </ConstraintSet>

    <Transition
        app:constraintSetEnd="@+id/addFolderBoxHidden"
        app:constraintSetStart="@+id/addFolderBoxShowed" >
        <OnSwipe
            app:touchAnchorId="@id/addFolderBox"
            app:touchRegionId="@id/addFolderBox"
            app:dragDirection="dragUp"
            app:touchAnchorSide="bottom" />

    </Transition>

    <Transition
        app:constraintSetEnd="@+id/settingsHidden"
        app:constraintSetStart="@+id/settingsShowed" >
        <OnSwipe
            app:touchAnchorId="@id/settingsBox"
            app:touchRegionId="@id/settingsBox"
            app:dragDirection="dragDown"
            app:touchAnchorSide="top" />

    </Transition>

    <Transition
        app:constraintSetStart="@+id/addFolderBoxShowed"
        app:constraintSetEnd="@+id/addFolderBoxHidden">

    </Transition>

    <Transition
        app:constraintSetStart="@+id/settingsHidden"
        app:constraintSetEnd="@+id/settingsShowed">

    </Transition>

</MotionScene>

And finally the activity layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.motion.widget.MotionLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/root"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="?attr/backgroundColor"
    tools:context=".activities.MainActivity"
    app:layoutDescription="@xml/activity_main_scene">

<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/group_grid_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:numColumns="2"
        android:visibility="visible"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/constraintLayout">

    </androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView>

    <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
        android:id="@+id/addFolderBox"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="330dp"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
        android:background="@drawable/add_folder_background"
        android:paddingHorizontal="17dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHeight_default="percent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"><.../>

<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
        android:id="@+id/settingsBox"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="600dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:background="@drawable/settings_bar_background"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent"
        android:translationZ="6dp"></...>

Solution

It was just the wrong approach to this problem.

So better way to make something like this is to make those panels BottomSheetDialog's and disable the overlay.

Answered By - Michal Dzurík