Firebaserecycleradapter Data Fetching Policy

Does FirebaseRecyclerAdapter load all children at a reference at once, or only upon scrolling. Suppose we have a ref containing thousands of chat messages, are they all going to be

Solution 1:

The FirebaseRecyclerAdapter loads whatever child nodes are matches by the DatabaseReference or Query you pass into it. It does not implement pagination or another form of load-on-demand.