LiveData and Adapters

What is the best way to handle adapter updates with data arriving only through LiveData?

With everything in Activity, you could call all methods, such as adapter.notifyItemAdded(), but with LiveData you can only submit one type of item, generally whole list to display. That way you can only call adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() which documentation states it should be used as last resort.

So is there any better way to do it, or do we just need to call adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() from now on?

[makk909]

I don’t think any of the solutions mentioned above has related to the Original Question, I want this issue to be reopened as currently I find no way to update a single item in RecyclerView Adapter using LiveData inside ViewModel, we have to set entire list everytime which I don’t think a better solution or technique.

[justjanne]

I’d like to know this as well – I’m working with large (tenthousands of items) datasets, and need to handle their LiveData<List<…>> changing frequently. Just diffing them is a major waste of time. A LiveDataCollection type that can handle collections, and changes within them, would be a major improvement.