Add space to the end of the RecyclerView

<RecyclerView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="50dp"
    android:clipToPadding="false"
    />

I had the similar issue. After reading all others replies and I found the changes in layout xml for recyclerview worked for my recycler view as expected:

        android:paddingBottom="127dp"
        android:clipToPadding="false"
        android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay"  

The complete layout looks like:

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/library_list"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="160dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="160dp"
        tools:listitem="@layout/library_list_item" />  

For the effect of before and after see the link at androidblog.us: Adding Space to End of Android Recylerview
Let me know how it works for you.

David

This is best achieved with an item decoration.

Here's an example that works with a LinearLayoutManager - you'll have to adjust to suit for your Grid layout. What it does is checks each item to see if it's the last one, and if it is it adds the offset to the bottom of it. For a Grid layout, the hard part is figuring out whether your item position is in the last row or not.

// After setting layout manager, adapter, etc...
float offsetPx = getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.bottom_offset_dp);
BottomOffsetDecoration bottomOffsetDecoration = new BottomOffsetDecoration((int) offsetPx);
mRecyclerView.addItemDecoration(bottomOffsetDecoration);

...

static class BottomOffsetDecoration extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration {
    private int mBottomOffset;

    public BottomOffsetDecoration(int bottomOffset) {
        mBottomOffset = bottomOffset;
    }

    @Override
    public void getItemOffsets(Rect outRect, View view, RecyclerView parent, RecyclerView.State state) {
        super.getItemOffsets(outRect, view, parent, state);
        int dataSize = state.getItemCount();
        int position = parent.getChildAdapterPosition(view);
        if (dataSize > 0 && position == dataSize - 1) {
            outRect.set(0, 0, 0, mBottomOffset);
        } else {
            outRect.set(0, 0, 0, 0);
        }

    }
}

For a GridLayoutManager, inside the getItemOffsets method you could do something similar to this to figure out if it's the last row:

GridLayoutManager grid = (GridLayoutManager)parent.getLayoutManager();
if ((dataSize - position) <= grid.getSpanCount()) {
    outRect.set(0, 0, 0, mBottomOffset);
} else {
    outRect.set(0, 0, 0, 0);
}