How to scroll to the bottom of a RecyclerView? scrollToPosition doesn't work

Question

I'd like to scroll to the bottom of the RecyclerView list after loading the activity.

GENERIC_MESSAGE_LIST = (ArrayList) intent.getExtras().getParcelableArrayList(ConversationsAdapter.EXTRA_MESSAGE);
conversationView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.list_messages);
conversationView.setHasFixedSize(true);
conversationViewLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
conversationView.setLayoutManager(conversationViewLayoutManager);
conversationViewAdapter = new ConversationAdapter(GENERIC_MESSAGE_LIST, this);
conversationView.setAdapter(conversationViewAdapter);

conversationView.scrollTo(...) throws an exception about being not supported in RecyclerView, and conversationView.scrollToPosition(...) doesn't seem to do anything.

After the above block of code, I added

conversationView.scrollToPosition(GENERIC_MESSAGE_LIST.size() + 1)

which doesn't work. There are 30 elements in GENERIC_MESSAGE_LIST.

Answer 1

I was looking at this post to find the answer but... I think everyone on this post was facing the same scenario as me: scrollToPosition() was fully ignored, for an evident reason.

What I was using?

recyclerView.scrollToPosition(items.size());

... what WORKED?

recyclerView.scrollToPosition(items.size() - 1);