Although the recommendation that

you should never put a scrollable view inside another scrollable view

Is a sound advice, however if you set a fixed height on the recycler view it should work fine.

If you know the height of the adapter item layout you could just calculate the height of the RecyclerView.

int viewHeight = adapterItemSize * adapterData.size(); recyclerView.getLayoutParams().height = adapterItemSize; 

Although the recommendation that

you should never put a scrollable view inside another scrollable view

Is a sound advice, however if you set a fixed height on the recycler view it should work fine.

If you know the height of the adapter item layout you could just calculate the height of the RecyclerView.

int viewHeight = adapterItemSize * adapterData.size(); recyclerView.getLayoutParams().height = viewHeight;