Assuming I'm understanding you, you're correct. We could definitely add an interface allowing you to pull that data out and provide implementation(s) for the default layout managers.

Right. I was a little bit skeptical that maybe there is a point I am missing, since only LinearLaoutManager was supported in the api.

It may be possible now to include those in the core library with http://b.android.com/149268 if I understand correctly what you're talking about.

What I'm asking is to have a more general interface to implement pre-loading for any extension of LayoutMangers in RecyclerViews

@eicm A pull request to implement that functionality would certainly be welcome :)

@sjudd I can't do it this month, if it wasn't implemented in by next month I will gladly do a pull for it :)

What I meant is the recyclerview integration module (I didn't know it existed :) could be built-in to main library module with a provided dependency on support-recyclerview with a generic interface and multiple implementations.

@eicm would you have a chance now to do a PR?

This is pretty easy to do in v4, in fact the existing RecyclerView preloader is just a thin wrapper itself: