RecyclerView onClick

Here is a better and less tightly coupled way to implement an OnClickListener for a RecyclerView.

Snippet of usage:

RecyclerView recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.recycler);
recyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(
    new RecyclerItemClickListener(context, recyclerView ,new RecyclerItemClickListener.OnItemClickListener() {
      @Override public void onItemClick(View view, int position) {
        // do whatever
      }

      @Override public void onLongItemClick(View view, int position) {
        // do whatever
      }
    })
);

RecyclerItemClickListener implementation:

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.GestureDetector;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;


public class RecyclerItemClickListener implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener {
  private OnItemClickListener mListener;

  public interface OnItemClickListener {
    public void onItemClick(View view, int position);

    public void onLongItemClick(View view, int position);
  }

  GestureDetector mGestureDetector;

  public RecyclerItemClickListener(Context context, final RecyclerView recyclerView, OnItemClickListener listener) {
    mListener = listener;
    mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(context, new GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void onLongPress(MotionEvent e) {
            View child = recyclerView.findChildViewUnder(e.getX(), e.getY());
            if (child != null && mListener != null) {
                mListener.onLongItemClick(child, recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(child));
            }
        }
    });
}

  @Override public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView view, MotionEvent e) {
    View childView = view.findChildViewUnder(e.getX(), e.getY());
    if (childView != null && mListener != null && mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(e)) {
      mListener.onItemClick(childView, view.getChildAdapterPosition(childView));
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  @Override public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView view, MotionEvent motionEvent) { }

  @Override
  public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent (boolean disallowIntercept){}
}

I do it in this way, without undue classes, detectors etc. Simple code inside our adapter. Especially better solution for longClick than presented before.

public class PasswordAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<PasswordAdapter.ViewHolder> {
    private final ClickListener clickListener;

    public PasswordAdapter(ClickListener clickListener) {
         this.clickListener = clickListener;
    }

    public class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener, View.OnLongClickListener {
        TextView name;

        public ViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            itemView.setOnClickListener(this);
            itemView.setOnLongClickListener(this);
            name = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.card_name);
        }

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            int position = getBindingAdapterPosition();
            if (position >= 0) {
                clickListener.onItemClick(position, v);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
            int position = getBindingAdapterPosition();
            if (position >= 0) { 
                clickListener.onItemLongClick(position, v);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    }

    public interface ClickListener {
        void onItemClick(int position, View v);
        void onItemLongClick(int position, View v);
    }
}

Then inside fragment or activity, just hit:

PasswordAdapter mAdapter = new PasswordAdapter(
    new PasswordAdapter.ClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(int position, View v) {
            Log.d(TAG, "onItemClick position: " + position);
        }

        @Override
        public void onItemLongClick(int position, View v) {
            Log.d(TAG, "onItemLongClick pos = " + position);
        }
    }
);

Check out a similar question @CommonsWare's comment links to this, which implements the OnClickListener interface in the viewHolder.

Here's a simple example of the ViewHolder:

/** Declare global with in adapter class. */
TextView textView;

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener {

    private ViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        itemView.setOnClickListener(this);
        textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);   
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        Toast.makeText(view.getContext(), "position = " + getLayoutPosition(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         
        /** Go through each item if you have few items within RecyclerView. */
        if (getLayoutPosition() == 0) {
           // Do whatever you want here
        } else if(getLayoutPosition() == 1) { 
           // Do whatever you want here
        } else if(getLayoutPosition() == 2) {
           // Do whatever you want here
        }

        /** Or you can use For loop if you have long list of items. */
        for (int i = 0; i < exampleList.size(); i++) {
            // Do whatever you want here
        }
    }
}

The creation of ViewHolder inside your RecyclerView.Adapter then looks like this:

@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext())
    View view = inflater.inflate(android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, parent, false);
    return new ViewHolder(view);
}

Based on Jacob Tabak's answer (+1 for him), I was able to add onLongClick listener:

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.GestureDetector;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;

public class RecyclerItemClickListener implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener {
    public interface OnItemClickListener {
        void onItemClick(View view, int position);

        void onItemLongClick(View view, int position);
    }

    private OnItemClickListener mListener;

    private GestureDetector mGestureDetector;

    public RecyclerItemClickListener(Context context, final RecyclerView recyclerView, OnItemClickListener listener) {
        mListener = listener;

        mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(context, new GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e) {
                return true;
            }

            @Override
            public void onLongPress(MotionEvent e) {
                View childView = recyclerView.findChildViewUnder(e.getX(), e.getY());

                if (childView != null && mListener != null) {
                    mListener.onItemLongClick(childView, recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(childView));
                }
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView view, MotionEvent e) {
        View childView = view.findChildViewUnder(e.getX(), e.getY());

        if (childView != null && mListener != null && mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(e)) {
            mListener.onItemClick(childView, view.getChildAdapterPosition(childView));
        }

        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public void onTouchEvent(RecyclerView view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept) {
    }
}

Then you can use it like this:

recyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(new RecyclerItemClickListener(getActivity(), recyclerView, new RecyclerItemClickListener.OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(View view, int position) {
        // ...
    }

    @Override
    public void onItemLongClick(View view, int position) {
        // ...
    }
}));

This is what worked for me. Attach the OnClickListener to the onBindView. I don't really know if this will impact the performance, but it seems to work fine with little code.

public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, final int position) {
    holder.view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                Toast.makeText(context, "Recycle Click" + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
    });
}

This was so hard for me to have on item click listener in the activity and also to have click listener for single view of the item that will not trigger on item click listener. After playing around with Jacob Tabak's answer I respect his answer for on item click if no other touch actions inside item are presented.

I have a custom OnClickListener interface that have on item click event which holds the clicked item's view and the item position from the adapter. I present an instance of it in the constructor(or it can be with setter) and attach it to the view holder container click listener.

I also have other click listener in the Adapter(Can be in the view holder) which will handle current View click from the container.

 public class MyRecyclerAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MyViewHolder> {

private ArrayList<String> mData;
private OnItemClickListener mOnItemClickListener;

public interface OnItemClickListener {
    public void onItemClick(View view, int position);
}

public MyRecyclerAdapter(ArrayList<String> itemsData,
        OnItemClickListener onItemClickListener) {
    mOnItemClickListener = onItemClickListener;
    this.mData = itemsData;
}

@Override
public MyViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent,
        int viewType) {

    View layoutView = LayoutInflater.from(mContext).inflate(
            R.layout.list_item, parent, false);

    final MyViewHolder viewHolder = new MyViewHolder(layoutView);

    viewHolder.container.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            mOnItemClickListener.onItemClick(v, viewHolder.getAdapterPosition());
        }
    });

    viewHоlder.button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            //do button click work here with
            // mData.get( viewHolder.getAdapterPosition() );
        }
    });

    return viewHolder;
}

@Override
public int getItemCount() {
    return mData.size();
}}

In the activity you need to initialize the adapter by passing instance of the OnItemClickListener

public class FeedActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    ...

    RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);

    .....

    MyRecyclerAdapter adapter = new MyRecyclerAdapter(new ArrayList<String>(), new OnItemClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemClick(View view, int position) {

            ///list item was clicked
        }
    });

    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
    recyclerView.setAdapter(mFeedsAdapter);
}

And my ViewHolder

public class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

public Button button;
public View container;

public MyViewHolder(View itemLayoutView) {
    super(itemLayoutView);

    container = itemLayoutView;
    button = (Button) itemLayoutView.findViewById(R.id.button);
}}

This is what I ended up needing, in case someone finds it useful:

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

    public ViewHolder(View item) {

        super(item);
        item.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Log.d("RecyclerView", "onClick：" + getAdapterPosition());
            }
        });

    }
}

Source: http://blog.csdn.net/jwzhangjie/article/details/36868515

I have nice solution for RecyclerView's onItemClickListener for the items and subitems

Step 1- Create an interface

public interface OnRecyclerViewItemClickListener
{
    /**
     * Called when any item with in recyclerview or any item with in item
     * clicked
     * 
     * @param position
     *            The position of the item
     * @param id
     *            The id of the view which is clicked with in the item or
     *            -1 if the item itself clicked
     */
    public void onRecyclerViewItemClicked(int position, int id);
}

Step 2- Then use it in adapter's onBindViewHolder method in the following way

/**
     * Custom created method for Setting the item click listener for the items and items with in items
     * @param listener OnRecyclerViewItemClickListener 
     */
    public void setOnItemClickListener(OnRecyclerViewItemClickListener listener)
    {
        this.listener = listener;
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder viewHolder, final int position)
    {
    
        // viewHolder.albumBg.setBackgroundResource(_itemData[position]
        // .getImageUrl());
    
        viewHolder.albumName.setText(arrayList.get(position).getName());
        viewHolder.artistName.setText(arrayList.get(position).getArtistName());
        String imgUrl = arrayList.get(position).getThumbImageUrl();
    
        makeImageRequest(imgUrl, viewHolder);
        viewHolder.parentView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
    
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v)
            {
                listener.onRecyclerViewItemClicked(position, -1);
            }
        });
        viewHolder.settingButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
    
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v)
            {
                listener.onRecyclerViewItemClicked(position, v.getId());
            }
        });
    
    }
    
    // class to hold a reference to each item of RecyclerView
    public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder
    {
    
        public TextView albumName, artistName;
        public ImageView albumIcon, settingButton;
        public LinearLayout parentView;
    
        public ViewHolder(View itemLayoutView)
        {
            super(itemLayoutView);
            // albumBg = (LinearLayout) itemLayoutView
            // .findViewById(R.id.albumDlbg);
            albumName = (TextView) itemLayoutView.findViewById(R.id.albumName);
            artistName = (TextView) itemLayoutView
                    .findViewById(R.id.artistName);
            albumIcon = (ImageView) itemLayoutView.findViewById(R.id.albumIcon);
            parentView = (LinearLayout) itemLayoutView
                    .findViewById(R.id.albumDlbg);
            settingButton = (ImageView) itemLayoutView
                    .findViewById(R.id.settingBtn);
        }
    
    }

Step 3- find and setup recycler view in activity or fragment where you are using this

recyclerView = (RecyclerView) rootview.findViewById(R.id.vmtopsongs);

        lm = new LinearLayoutManager(mActivity);
        lm.setOrientation(LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(lm);
        recyclerView.addItemDecoration(
                new HorizontalDividerItemDecoration.Builder(getActivity())
                        .paint(Utils.getPaint()).build());
        PopularSongsadapter mAdapter = new PopularSongsadapter(gallery,
                mActivity, true);
        // set adapter
        recyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
        mAdapter.setOnItemClickListener(this);
        // set item animator to DefaultAnimator
        recyclerView.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());

Step 4- Finally implement interface in activity or fragment where you are using the recyclerview

@Override
    public void onRecyclerViewItemClicked(int position, int id)
    {
        if(id==-1){
            Toast.makeText(mActivity, "complete item clicked", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }else{
            Toast.makeText(mActivity, "setting button clicked", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }

Update for Kotlin Language I have updated the code for kotlin in which only whole view has on click listener. You can set subitems click listener by editing interface and code according to above java code.

Adapter

class RecentPostsAdapter(private val list: MutableList<Post>) :
    RecyclerView.Adapter<RecentPostsAdapter.ViewHolder>() {
    private lateinit var onItemClickListener: OnItemClickListener

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): ViewHolder {
        return ViewHolder(
            LayoutInflater.from(parent.context)
                .inflate(R.layout.listitem_recent_post, parent, false)
        )
    }

    override fun getItemCount(): Int {
        return list.size
    }

    fun setOnItemClickListener(onItemClickListener: OnItemClickListener) {
        this.onItemClickListener = onItemClickListener
    }

    private fun getItem(position: Int): Post {
        return list[position]
    }

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: ViewHolder, position: Int) {
        holder.bind(getItem(position))
        holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(View.OnClickListener {
            onItemClickListener.onItemClick(
                position
            )
        })
    }

    class ViewHolder(itemView: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView) {
        private var imageView: NetworkImageView? = null
        private var tvTitle: TextView? = null
        private var tvExcerpt: TextView? = null
        private var htmlSpanner: HtmlSpanner = HtmlSpanner()

        init {
            imageView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.niv_post_image)
            tvTitle = itemView.findViewById(R.id.tv_post_title)
            tvExcerpt = itemView.findViewById(R.id.tv_post_excerpt)
        }

        fun bind(post: Post) {
            tvTitle?.text = post.title
            tvExcerpt?.text = htmlSpanner.fromHtml(post.excerpt)
        }
    }

    interface OnItemClickListener {
        fun onItemClick(position: Int)
    }
}

Activity or Fragment

recyclerView = view.findViewById(R.id.rvHomeRecentPosts)
        recyclerView.layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(view.context)
        list = mutableListOf()
        recentPostsAdapter = RecentPostsAdapter(list)
        recyclerView.adapter = recentPostsAdapter
        recentPostsAdapter.setOnItemClickListener(object:RecentPostsAdapter.OnItemClickListener{
            override fun onItemClick(position: Int) {
                (activity as MainActivity).findNavController(R.id.nav_host_fragment).navigate(R.id.action_nav_home_to_nav_post_detail)
            }

        })

Here is what I did. This solution supports both onClick and onLongClick on both RecyclerView Items and Views insides RecyclerView Items (internal views).

I tag viewHolder on the views of my choice :

public RecyclerViewAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    View itemView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.layout_item, null);
    ViewHolder viewHolder = new ViewHolder(itemView);

    itemView.setOnClickListener( this);
    itemView.setOnLongClickListener(this);
    viewHolder.imageIV.setOnClickListener(this);
    viewHolder.imageIV.setOnLongClickListener(this);

    viewHolder.imageIV.setTag(viewHolder);
    itemView.setTag(viewHolder);

    return viewHolder;
}

And I use holder.getPosition() to retrieve the position in onClick() method (onLongClick is similar) :

public void onClick(View view) {
    ViewHolder holder = (ViewHolder) view.getTag();
    int position = holder.getPosition();

    if (view.getId() == holder.imageIV.getId()){
        Toast.makeText(context, "imageIV onClick at" + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    } else {
        Toast.makeText(context, "RecyclerView Item onClick at " + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

A variant with getChildPosition also works. Please note that for the internal views, in onClick() use :

int position = recyclerView.getChildPosition((View)view.getParent());

To my mind, the avantage of this solution is that when one clicks on the image, only the onclick() image listener is called whereas when I combined Jacob's solution for a RecyclerView Item view and my solution for internal views the RecyclerView Item view onclick() is also called (when click on image).

There is far easier way to do this. Just apply on click in onBindViewHolder on root view.

Consider this is your view for adapter,

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/linearlayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textview"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
            android:textSize="15sp" />
</LinearLayout>

Then do following in your adapter

//get the layout and make view holder
@Override
public RVAdapter.ViewHolder1 onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {

    View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.adapter_layout, null);
    ViewHolder1 viewHolder = new ViewHolder1(view);
    return viewHolder;
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(RVAdapter.ViewHolder1 holder, int position) {

    //apply on click on your root view
    holder.linearlayout.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            //Do on click stuff
        }
    });
}

//make references to views in layout including root view
public class ViewHolder1 extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

    protected LinearLayout linearlayout = null
    protected TextView textview = null;

    public CareerLinksViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);

        this.linearlayout = (LinearLayout) itemView.findViewById(R.id.linearlayout);
        this.tvCompName = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.textview);
    }
}

Way too simple and effective.

Instead of implementing interface View.OnClickListener inside view holder or creating and interface and implementing interface in your activity - I used this code for simple on OnClickListener implementation.

public static class SimpleStringRecyclerViewAdapter
            extends RecyclerView.Adapter<SimpleStringRecyclerViewAdapter.ViewHolder> {

        // Your initializations goes here...
        private List<String> mValues;

        public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

            //create a variable mView
            public final View mView;

            /*All your row widgets goes here
            public final ImageView mImageView;
            public final TextView mTextView;*/

            public ViewHolder(View view) {
                super(view);
                //Initialize it here
                mView = view;

                /* your row widgets initializations goes here
                mImageView = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.avatar);
                mTextView = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);*/
            }
        }

        public String getValueAt(int position) {
            return mValues.get(position);
        }

        public SimpleStringRecyclerViewAdapter(Context context, List<String> items) {

            mBackground = mTypedValue.resourceId;
            mValues = items;
        }

        @Override
        public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
            View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext())
                    .inflate(R.layout.list_item, parent, false);
            view.setBackgroundResource(mBackground);
            return new ViewHolder(view);
        }

        @Override
        public void onBindViewHolder(final ViewHolder holder, int position) {
            holder.mBoundString = mValues.get(position);
            holder.mTextView.setText(mValues.get(position));

            //Here it is simply write onItemClick listener here
            holder.mView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    Context context = v.getContext();
                    Intent intent = new Intent(context, ExampleActivity.class);

                    context.startActivity(intent);
                }
            });
        }

        @Override
        public int getItemCount() {
            return mValues.size();
        }
    }

You can pass a clickListener to Adapter.

In your Activity:

private View.OnClickListener mItemClick = new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Intent intent = null;
        int position = list.getChildPosition(v);
        switch (position) {
            case 0:
                intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, LeakCanaryActivity.class);
                break;
            case 1:
                intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, ButterKnifeFragmentActivity.class);
                break;
        }
        if (intent != null) {
            MainActivity.this.startActivity(intent);
        }
    }
};

then pass it to Adapter:

MainAdapter mainAdapter = new MainAdapter(this, mItemClick);

In Adapter's onCreateViewHolder:

 @Override
public MainAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup viewGroup, int position) {
    View itemView = activity.getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.main_adapter_item, viewGroup, false);
    ViewHolder holder = new ViewHolder(itemView);
    itemView.setOnClickListener(mItemClick);
    return holder;
}

If you want to catch click event On Individual items then just implement OnClickListener in ViewHolder class and then set click listeners on individual views or whole itemView.

Following example shows the same

public  class ContactViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements OnClickListener
    {
        TextView txt_title,txt_name,txt_email;

        public ContactViewHolder(View itemView) 
        {
            super(itemView);
            txt_title = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.txt_title);
            txt_name  = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.txt_name);
            txt_email = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.txt_email);

            txt_name.setOnClickListener(this);
            txt_email.setOnClickListener(this);
            itemView.setOnClickListener(this);
        }

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            if(v == itemView)
            {
                Toast.makeText(RecyclerDemoActivity.this, "Visiting Card Clicked is ==>"+txt_name.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }

            if(v == txt_name)
            {
                Toast.makeText(RecyclerDemoActivity.this, "Name ==>"+txt_name.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }

            if(v == txt_email)
            {
                Toast.makeText(RecyclerDemoActivity.this, "Email ==>"+txt_email.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }

    }
} 

You can implement View.OnClickListener to your ViewHolder class

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener {
        
    public Item item
    @InjectView(R.id.tv_title) 
    public TextView tvTitle;
    @InjectView(R.id.rl_row) 
    public RelativeLayout rlRow;

    public ViewHolder(View v) {
        super(v);
        ButterKnife.inject(this, v);
        v.setOnClickListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        Log.e("item title",item.getTitle());
    }
}

And onBindViewHolder set your view holder's item:

public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
    holder.tvTitle.setText(objects.get(position).getTitle());
    holder.item = objects.get(position);
}

I have developed a light weighted library for android, you can visit github and follow this sample:

RecycleClick.addTo(YOUR_RECYCLE_VIEW).setOnItemClickListener(new RecycleClick.OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClicked(RecyclerView recyclerView, int position, View v) {
        // Your code here
    }
});

According to Yigit Boyar, the best way to register a click on a RecyclerView is to define the click in the creation of the ViewHolder instead of just creating a new onClickListener for each item that the onBindViewHolder binds

Example:

override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): BaseViewHolder<*> {
   val itemBinding = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.my_layout, parent, false)

   val vh = MainViewHolder (itemBinding)
   vh.itemView.setOnClickListener {
       val pos = vh.adapterPosition
       if(pos != NO_POSITION){
           itemClickLister.onCocktailClick(myList[pos],pos)
       }
   }

   return vh
}

All the answers posted so far are great solutions, however if you do not want to deal with too many implementation details, and just want it to work similarly to how ListView does, I would recommend using TwoWay-View, as seen here:

https://github.com/lucasr/twoway-view

Note that this implementation also supports long press on items, as well as support for pressed states (which is something important that other solutions to this question lack).

If you don't want to use the entire library, take a look at the ClickItemTouchListener class, which can be used as a standalone if needed. The only issue I found with it at the moment is with long press + scrolling, it seems to have incorrect behaviour.

You can easily define setOnClickListener in your ViewHolder class as follow:

public class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    TextView product_name;

    ViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        product_name = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.product_name);
        itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                int itemPosition = getLayoutPosition();
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), itemPosition + ":" + String.valueOf(product_name.getText()), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    }
}

For me, this is the best way:

class YourRecyclerAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ContactViewHolder> implements View.OnClickListener { 
  ...
  @Override
  public void onClick(View view) {
        int itemPosition = vRecycle.getChildPosition(view);
        //And use itemPosition to get the item from your collection. This way you dont restrain the ViewHolder with a OnClick callback
    }
  ...
}

The RecyclerView does not have a OnClickListener and will have to implement it ourselves.

I like to add a OnItemClickListener interface in Adapter with an onClick method invoked when you click on the item view from the ViewHolder. Thus the responsibility of managing the click on an item is outside the ViewHolder and Adapter. Will the activity or fragment which will decide what to do

Add an interface to the listener and the listener object.

public class ItemsAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ItemsAdapter.ViewHolder> {

  ...

  private static OnItemClickListener onItemClickListener;

  ...

  public static interface OnItemClickListener {
      public void onItemClick(View view, int position);
  }

  ...
}

We capture the click of the root view of the item and when the callback is triggered onClick listener call on the adapter .

public class ItemsAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ItemsAdapter.ViewHolder> {

  ...

  private static OnItemClickListener onItemClickListener;

  ...

  public static interface OnItemClickListener {
      public void onItemClick(View view, int position);
  }

  ...

  public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
      public ImageView imageView;

      public ViewHolder(View itemRootView) {
          super(itemRootView);
          imageView = (ImageView) itemRootView.findViewById(R.id.itemImage);

          itemRootView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
              @Override
              public void onClick(View view) {
                  int position  = ViewHolder.super.getAdapterPosition();
                  onItemClickListener.onItemClick(view,position);
              }
          });
      }
  }
}

Since the activity or fragment , fragment in our case , we assign a listener to the adapter and the onClick callback we will get the selected item by position and opened a detailed activity of item.

public class ItemsFragment extends Fragment {
    ...
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       ...    
        ((ItemsAdapter) adapter).setOnItemClickListener(new ItemsAdapter.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(View view, int position) {
                //Do something when an item has been clicked
            }
        });
        ...
    }
...
}

Here is what I did Read more & download the gist here

Adding the same here

CustomItemClickListener.java

public interface CustomItemClickListener {
 public void onItemClick(View v, int position);
}

ItemsListAdapter.java

public class ItemsListAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ItemsListAdapter.ViewHolder> {
ArrayList<ItemListSingleItem> data;

Context mContext;
CustomItemClickListener listener;

@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    View mView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.items_list_single_item, parent, false);
    final ViewHolder mViewHolder = new ViewHolder(mView);
    mView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            listener.onItemClick(v, mViewHolder.getAdapterPosition());
        }
    });
    return mViewHolder;
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
    holder.itemTitle.setText(Html.fromHtml(data.get(position).getTitle()));
    if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(data.get(position).getThumbnailURL())) {
      // I Love picasso library :) http://square.github.io/picasso/
        Picasso.with(mContext).load(data.get(position).getThumbnailURL()).error(R.drawable.ic_no_image).
                placeholder(R.drawable.ic_no_image).
                transform(new RoundedCornersTransformation(5, 0)).
                into(holder.thumbnailImage);
    } else {
        holder.thumbnailImage.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_no_image);
    }
}


@Override
public int getItemCount() {
    return data.size();
}

public ItemsListAdapter(Context mContext, ArrayList<ItemsListSingleItem> data, CustomItemClickListener listener) {
    this.data = data;
    this.mContext = mContext;
    this.listener = listener;
}

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    public TextView itemTitle;
    public ImageView thumbnailImage;

    ViewHolder(View v) {
        super(v);
        itemTitle = (TextView) v
                .findViewById(R.id.post_title);
        thumbnailImage = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.post_thumb_image);
    }
 }
}

From most of the answers above, they seem to be setting their onclicklisteners to individual items. However, the solution am about to offer is very simple but yet not intuitive to many. Many are forgetting that the other components are always in a parent component which is used to display items in the List or Recycler views. This solution is just about setting a single onclick listener to this parent view and the turn is played. The solution also includes a way to pass the position of the item being clicked on from the list or recycler view. Here, our main rootview is a CardView from the android support library. Here is sample code

public class ListAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ListAdapter.ViewHolder> {

public static final String LOG_TAG = ListAdapter.class.getSimpleName();
private Cursor mDataset;
private Context mContext;
private ViewHolder mViewHolder;

// Provide a suitable constructor (depends on the kind of dataset)
public ListAdapter(Context context, Cursor Dataset) {
    mDataset = Dataset;
    mContext = context;
}

// Create new views (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {

    // create a new view
    View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext())
            .inflate(R.layout.list_business_view, parent, false);

    mViewHolder = new ViewHolder(v);
    return mViewHolder;
}

public void setData(Cursor newdata) {
    this.mDataset = newdata;
}

// Replace the contents of a view (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
//Bind data to other items here. To save time, i have ommited that.
           //here is where we attach a click listerner for an item in the recycler list rather than for each element of a given item.
            holder.card.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    Toast.makeText(mContext, " Just cliked item at position " + itemPosition, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

            }
        });

    }
}

// Return the size of your dataset (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public int getItemCount() {
    if (null != mDataset) {
        return mDataset.getCount();
    }
    return 0;

}


// Provide a reference to the views for each data item
// Complex data items may need more than one view per item, and
// you provide access to all the views for a data item in a view holder
public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{
    // each data item is just a string in this case
    public final TextView mBusinesssName; // View for the business name
    public final TextView mBusinessCategory; //View for the category name
    public final ImageView businessImage; // View for the business category image Image
    public final TextView mBusinessDistance; // View for the distance
    public final CardView card;

    public ViewHolder(View view) {
        super(view);
        mBusinesssName = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_item_name_textview);
        mBusinessCategory = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_item_category_textview);
        mBusinessDistance = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_item_dist_textview);
        businessImage = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_item_icon);
        card = (CardView) view.findViewById(R.id.card_view);

    }
}
}

Unfortunately RecyclerView is missing a couple of features that ListView had built-in. For example the ability to add an OnItemClickListener that triggers when an item is clicked. RecyclerView allows you to set an OnClickListener in your adapter, but passing on that click listener from your calling code, to the adapter and to the ViewHolder, is complicated for catching a simple item click.

public class ItemClickSupport {
private final RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
private OnItemClickListener mOnItemClickListener;
private OnItemLongClickListener mOnItemLongClickListener;
private View.OnClickListener mOnClickListener = new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        if (mOnItemClickListener != null) {
            RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder = mRecyclerView.getChildViewHolder(v);
            mOnItemClickListener.onItemClicked(mRecyclerView, holder.getAdapterPosition(), v);
        }
    }
};
private View.OnLongClickListener mOnLongClickListener = new View.OnLongClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
        if (mOnItemLongClickListener != null) {
            RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder = mRecyclerView.getChildViewHolder(v);
            return mOnItemLongClickListener.onItemLongClicked(mRecyclerView, holder.getAdapterPosition(), v);
        }
        return false;
    }
};
private RecyclerView.OnChildAttachStateChangeListener mAttachListener
        = new RecyclerView.OnChildAttachStateChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onChildViewAttachedToWindow(View view) {
        if (mOnItemClickListener != null) {
            view.setOnClickListener(mOnClickListener);
        }
        if (mOnItemLongClickListener != null) {
            view.setOnLongClickListener(mOnLongClickListener);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onChildViewDetachedFromWindow(View view) {

    }
};

private ItemClickSupport(RecyclerView recyclerView) {
    mRecyclerView = recyclerView;
    mRecyclerView.setTag(R.id.item_click_support, this);
    mRecyclerView.addOnChildAttachStateChangeListener(mAttachListener);
}

public static ItemClickSupport addTo(RecyclerView view) {
    ItemClickSupport support = (ItemClickSupport) view.getTag(R.id.item_click_support);
    if (support == null) {
        support = new ItemClickSupport(view);
    }
    return support;
}

public static ItemClickSupport removeFrom(RecyclerView view) {
    ItemClickSupport support = (ItemClickSupport) view.getTag(R.id.item_click_support);
    if (support != null) {
        support.detach(view);
    }
    return support;
}

public ItemClickSupport setOnItemClickListener(OnItemClickListener listener) {
    mOnItemClickListener = listener;
    return this;
}

public ItemClickSupport setOnItemLongClickListener(OnItemLongClickListener listener) {
    mOnItemLongClickListener = listener;
    return this;
}

private void detach(RecyclerView view) {
    view.removeOnChildAttachStateChangeListener(mAttachListener);
    view.setTag(R.id.item_click_support, null);
}

public interface OnItemClickListener {

    void onItemClicked(RecyclerView recyclerView, int position, View v);
}

public interface OnItemLongClickListener {

    boolean onItemLongClicked(RecyclerView recyclerView, int position, View v);
}
}

You also need to define R.id.item_click_support using ids.xml:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <resources>
  <item name="item_click_support" type="id" />
 </resources>

The resulting code click listener now looks like this:

ItemClickSupport.addTo(mRecyclerView).setOnItemClickListener(new ItemClickSupport.OnItemClickListener() {
@Override
public void onItemClicked(RecyclerView recyclerView, int position, View v) {
    // do it
}
});

For Brief Explanation about recyclerview clicks please have a look at this littlerobots_blog

Kotlin implementation of nhaarman's answer :

mRecyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(object  : RecyclerItemClickListener(this, mRecyclerView,object :RecyclerItemClickListener.OnItemClickListener{
            override fun onItemClick(view: View, position: Int) {

            }

            override fun onLongItemClick(view: View?, position: Int) {

            }
}){})

RecyclerItemClickListener.java :

import android.content.Context
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
import android.view.GestureDetector
import android.view.MotionEvent
import android.view.View


open class RecyclerItemClickListener(context: Context, recyclerView: RecyclerView, private val mListener: OnItemClickListener?) : RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener {

    private var mGestureDetector: GestureDetector

    interface OnItemClickListener {
        fun onItemClick(view: View, position: Int)

        fun onLongItemClick(view: View?, position: Int)
    }

    init {
        mGestureDetector = GestureDetector(context, object : GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener() {
            override fun onSingleTapUp(e: MotionEvent): Boolean {
                return true
            }

            override fun onLongPress(e: MotionEvent) {
                val child = recyclerView.findChildViewUnder(e.x, e.y)
                if (child != null && mListener != null) {
                    mListener.onLongItemClick(child, recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(child))
                }
            }
        })
    }

    override fun onInterceptTouchEvent(view: RecyclerView, e: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        val childView = view.findChildViewUnder(e.x, e.y)
        if (childView != null && mListener != null && mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(e)) {
            mListener.onItemClick(childView, view.getChildAdapterPosition(childView))
            return true
        }
        return false
    }

    override fun onTouchEvent(view: RecyclerView, motionEvent: MotionEvent) {}

    override fun onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(disallowIntercept: Boolean) {}
}

Here is simple and clear way is add inside your ReacyclerView ViewHolder

public static class MyViewholder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

    public MyViewholder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);

        itemView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Log.d("Tag", "onClick：" + getAdapterPosition());
            }
        });

    }
}

getAdapterPosition() is returns the current clicked item position

Don't reinvent the wheel! The code for this specific use case is included in the Master/Detail Flow starter project that comes with Android Studio.

From Android Studio select:

1. File > New > New Project....
2. In the Phone and Tablet tab select Master/Detail Flow as shown below.

3. Create the project as either Kotlin or Java.
4. Profit.

I am not going to include here the code from google's ootb the demo project, but I'll outline the main design approaches in the sample provided by google:

• the item OnClickListener is created ONLY ONCE, and is assigned to a field in your RecyclerView.Adapter implementation.
• in the onBindViewHolder() you should set the same, pre-created onClickListener object on your ViewHolder instance with holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(mOnClickListener) (AVOID creating a new instance on every method call!); if you need to capture clicks on some specific elements inside the ViewHolder then extend ViewHolder and expose the elements you need as fields so that you can attach whatever listeners you need in onBindViewHolder() — and once again, do NOT re-create the listeners on every method call — initialise them as instance fields and attach them as needed.
• you can use .setTag() in order to pass state to your viewHolder, e.g. holder.itemView.setTag(mValues.get(position)); as used in the demo.

Setup click listener inside your ViewHolder this way:

public class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    public TextView title, year, genre;

    public MyViewHolder(View view) {
        super(view);

        title = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.title);
        genre = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.genre);
        year = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.year);

        view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Toast.makeText(context, ""+getAdapterPosition(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    }
}

We can do this using Java weak references. Semantically, the view holder is the one that should respond to the click event or delegate it to the correct responder.

Our goals:

1. The Viewholder should know nothing about the the class thats responding to the events except that it implements a certain interface.
2. The click handler should get the position in the RecyclerView of the view thats clicked.
3. We should be able to discern which view was clicked in the view holder.
4. Maintain loose coupling between all components and don't cause any retain cycles.

Steps:

1. Create an interface to handle click responses.

2. Implement this interface in the Activity that will handle the click.

3. Add a member variable in the RecyclerView Adapter to hold the Weak Reference and a constructor that sets it.

4. Do the same in the RecyclerView ViewHolder and add a member variable to keep track of position.

5. Set your on click listeners on any view you'd like in the ViewHolder, then callback to the responder to handle them.

6. Change your onBindViewHolder method to set the position when binding.

7. Pass the responder down to the ViewHolder.

8. In the responder, you can now use getId() on the view to figure out which view was clicked.

And here's a Gist so you can see how it all fits together: RecyclerView click handling

I'm aware there are a lot of answers, but I thought I might just provide my implementation of it as well. (Full details can be found on another question I answered).

So, to add a click listener, your inner ViewHolder class needs to implement View.OnClickListener. This is because you will set an OnClickListener to the itemView parameter of the ViewHolder's constructor. Let me show you what I mean:

public class ExampleClickViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener {

    TextView text1, text2;

    ExampleClickViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);

        // we do this because we want to check when an item has been clicked:
        itemView.setOnClickListener(this);

        // now, like before, we assign our View variables
        title = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.text1);
        subtitle = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.text2);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // The user may not set a click listener for list items, in which case our listener
        // will be null, so we need to check for this
        if (mOnEntryClickListener != null) {
            mOnEntryClickListener.onEntryClick(v, getLayoutPosition());
        }
    }
}

The only other things you need to add are a custom interface for your Adapter and a setter method:

private OnEntryClickListener mOnEntryClickListener;

public interface OnEntryClickListener {
    void onEntryClick(View view, int position);
}

public void setOnEntryClickListener(OnEntryClickListener onEntryClickListener) {
    mOnEntryClickListener = onEntryClickListener;
}

So your new, click-supporting Adapter is complete.

Now, let's use it...

    ExampleClickAdapter clickAdapter = new ExampleClickAdapter(yourObjects);
    clickAdapter.setOnEntryClickListener(new ExampleClickAdapter.OnEntryClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onEntryClick(View view, int position) {
            // stuff that will happen when a list item is clicked
        }
    });

It's basically how you would set up a normal Adapter, except that you use your setter method that you created to control what you will do when your user clicks a particular list item.

You can also look through a set of examples I made on this Gist on GitHub:

https://gist.github.com/FarbodSalamat-Zadeh/7646564f48ee708c1582c013e1de4f07