<p>If you’ve used a RecyclerView, you may know that they don’t have a <span style="color: #008000;"><strong>setOnItemClickListener</strong></span> as ListView had, so we have to create our own way to do it.</p>
<p>There are many ways to achieve this, but I will show you the way I usually do it. My mechanism consists of passing the listener as a parameter to the constructor and then assign it when I bind the data to the view in onBindViewHolder.</p>
<p>You’ll first need an interface that specifies listener’s behavior. In this example, there is a data class called Book, so the click will return an item of that type:</p>
<pre>public interface OnItemClickListener {
 void onItemClick(Book book);

}</pre>
<p>The constructor will receive an object that implements this interface, along with the items to be rendered:</p>
<pre>public class BookAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<;BookAdapter.MyViewHolder>; {


 private List<;Book>; bookList;
 private OnItemClickListener listener;

 public BookAdapter(List<;Book>; bookList, OnItemClickListener listener) {
 this.bookList = bookList;
 this.listener = listener;
 }

</pre>
<p>Now, in onBindViewHolder the ViewHolderwill receive the constructor in the custom bind method:</p>
<pre>@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(MyViewHolder holder, int position) {
 holder.bind(bookList.get(position), listener);
 
}</pre>
<h4><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>This is how this bind method looks:</strong></span></h4>
<pre>public void bind(final Book item, final OnItemClickListener listener) {

 authorName.setText(item.getAuthorName());
 bookName.setText(item.getBookName());
 imageView.setImageResource(item.getImageResource());
 itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

 @Override
 public void onClick(View v) {

 listener.onItemClick(item);
 }

 });
}
</pre>
<p>Use it whenever you need it by creating a new adapter and the listener that will implement the behaviour when an item is clicked. A simple example:</p>
<pre>//<strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">setting custum onItemClickListener</span></strong>
recyclerView.setAdapter(new BookAdapter(bookList,new BookAdapter.OnItemClickListener(){
 @Override
 public void onItemClick(Book book){
 Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), book.getBookName()+" "+" book is Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

 }
}));

</pre>
<p>Take a look at the whole code of this adapter.</p>
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<pre>package com.example.lenovo.recyclerview.adapter;

import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.example.lenovo.recyclerview.R;
import com.example.lenovo.recyclerview.model.Book;
import java.util.List;


public class BookAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<;BookAdapter.MyViewHolder>; {

 private List<;Book>; bookList;
 private OnItemClickListener listener;

 public BookAdapter(List<;Book>; bookList, OnItemClickListener listener) {
 this.bookList = bookList;
 this.listener = listener;
 }

 public class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
 public TextView authorName, bookName;
 public ImageView imageView;

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

 authorName = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.author_name);
 bookName = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.book_name);
 imageView = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.img_book);
 }

 public void bind(final Book item, final OnItemClickListener listener) {

 authorName.setText(item.getAuthorName());
 bookName.setText(item.getBookName());
 imageView.setImageResource(item.getImageResource());
 itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
 @Override
 public void onClick(View v) {

 listener.onItemClick(item);

 }
 });
 }
 }

 @Override
 public MyViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
 View itemView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.book_list_row, parent, false);
 return new MyViewHolder(itemView);

 }

 @Override
 public void onBindViewHolder(MyViewHolder holder, int position) {
 holder.bind(bookList.get(position), listener);


 }

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

 public interface OnItemClickListener {
 void onItemClick(Book book);

 }
}</pre>