Why is findFirstVisibleItemPosition not working as expected?

I have been struggling with this problem for a long time, I am trying to replace my list with recyclerview and my list looks like this: -

<ListView
            android:id="@+id/browser_sub_list_view"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:clipToPadding="false"
            android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
            android:paddingTop="340dp"/>

      

        
        
        
      

    

Now when I call

view.getFirstVisiblePosition(); 

      

        
        
        
      

    

In this list, I am returning the position of the first element, which is zero, and since I gave top padding, so it will continue to only return zero until the first element is associated with screens.

But when I try to do the same with the recyclerview, even if the first item of the recyclerview is still visible, it gives me different values ​​of the firstvisible item, and this is because the recyclerview thinks that toppadding as an anchored screen now I have no hint how to solve this problem. Please, help.

Here is my code.

MainActivity.Java

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
    private TheAdapter adapter;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recyclerview);
        mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));

        ArrayList<String> items = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
            items.add("This is item:-" + i);
        }

        adapter = new TheAdapter(items);
        mRecyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
        mRecyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener() {
            @Override
            public void onScrollStateChanged(RecyclerView recyclerView, int newState) {
                super.onScrollStateChanged(recyclerView, newState);
            }

            @Override
            public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy) {
                LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager = (LinearLayoutManager) recyclerView.getLayoutManager();
                Log.d("DISTANCE", "" + linearLayoutManager.findFirstVisibleItemPosition());
            }
        });
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/recyclerview"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:clipToPadding="false"
        android:paddingTop="340dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        />

</RelativeLayout>

      

        
        
        
      

    

this is my adapter class

class TheAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<TheAdapter.ItemHolder> {

    public TheAdapter(ArrayList<String> data) {
        mData = data;
    }

    private ArrayList<String> mData;

    @Override
    public ItemHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.list_item, parent, false);

        return new ItemHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(ItemHolder holder, int position) {
        holder.mTextView.setText(mData.get(position));
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {

        return mData == null ? 0 : mData.size();
    }

    public class ItemHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        private TextView mTextView;

        public ItemHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            mTextView = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.textTitle);
        }
    }
}