android – how to catch Drop action of ItemTouchHelper which is used with RecyclerView

While dragging and dropping an item, the onMove() can be called more than once, but the clearView() will be called once. So you can use this to indicate the drag was over(drop was happened).
And use two variables dragFrom and dragTo to trace the really position in a completed “drag & drop”.

private ItemTouchHelper.Callback dragCallback = new ItemTouchHelper.Callback() {

    int dragFrom = -1;
    int dragTo = -1;

    @Override
    public int getMovementFlags(RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder) {
        return makeMovementFlags(ItemTouchHelper.UP|ItemTouchHelper.DOWN|ItemTouchHelper.LEFT|ItemTouchHelper.RIGHT,
                0);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMove(RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, RecyclerView.ViewHolder target) {

        int fromPosition = viewHolder.getAdapterPosition();
        int toPosition = target.getAdapterPosition();


        if(dragFrom == -1) {
            dragFrom =  fromPosition;
        }
        dragTo = toPosition;

        adapter.onItemMove(fromPosition, toPosition);

        return true;
    }

    private void reallyMoved(int from, int to) {
        // I guessed this was what you want...
    }

    @Override
    public void onSwiped(RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, int direction) {

    }

    @Override
    public boolean isLongPressDragEnabled() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isItemViewSwipeEnabled() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public void clearView(RecyclerView recyclerView, RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder) {
        super.clearView(recyclerView, viewHolder);

        if(dragFrom != -1 && dragTo != -1 && dragFrom != dragTo) {
            reallyMoved(dragFrom, dragTo);
        }

        dragFrom = dragTo = -1;
    }

};

adapter.onItemMove(fromPosition, toPosition) was like below:

public void onItemMove(int fromPosition, int toPosition) {
    list.add(toPosition, list.remove(fromPosition));
    notifyItemMoved(fromPosition, toPosition);
}

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