Swipe to Dismiss for RecyclerView

As of v22.2.0, the Android support team has included an ItemTouchHelper class that makes swipe-to-dismiss and drag-and-drop pretty simple. This may not be as full-featured as some of the libraries out there, but it comes directly from the Android team.

• Update your build.gradle to import v22.2.+ of the RecyclerView library

  compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:22.2.+'
  

• Instantiate an ItemTouchHelper with an appropriate SimpleCallback

  ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback simpleItemTouchCallback = new ItemTouchHelper.SimpleCallback(0, ItemTouchHelper.LEFT | ItemTouchHelper.RIGHT) {
      [...]
      @Override
      public void onSwiped(RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, int swipeDir) {
          //Remove swiped item from list and notify the RecyclerView
      }
  };
  
  ItemTouchHelper itemTouchHelper = new ItemTouchHelper(simpleItemTouchCallback);
  

  ** Note that the SimpleCallback takes in the directions that you want to enable drag-and-drop and the directions that you want to enable swiping.

• Attach to your RecyclerView

  itemTouchHelper.attachToRecyclerView(recyclerView);