I faced the same problem, Don't know the actual cause of this but I found a working solution. You need to create a Listener class which `implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener`
public class MatchClickListener implements RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener { private GestureDetector gestureDetector; private ClickListener clickListener;
public MatchClickListener(Context context, final RecyclerView recyclerView, final ClickListener clickListener) { this.clickListener = clickListener; gestureDetector = 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 && clickListener != null) { clickListener.onLongClick(child, recyclerView.getChildPosition(child)); } } }); }
@Override public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) {
View child = rv.findChildViewUnder(e.getX(), e.getY()); if (child != null && clickListener != null && gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(e)) { clickListener.onClick(child, rv.getChildPosition(child)); } return false; }
@Override public void onTouchEvent(@NotNull RecyclerView rv, MotionEvent e) { }
@Override public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept) {
}
public interface ClickListener { void onClick(View view, int position);
void onLongClick(View view, int position);} }


Then call it from your fragment or mainactivity where recyler view is created
recyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(new MatchClickListener (getActivity(),recyclerView, new MatchClickListener.ClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View view, int position) { Intent in =new Intent(getActivity(), TournamentPage.class); startActivity(in); }
@Override public void onLongClick(View view, int position) {
} }));

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) { // ... } }));