Since API 24, the RecyclerView will auto scroll to a item which is displayed in partial by the user click the item.
How to disable this feature?
The codes below works before support-library 25.0.1.
@Override
    public boolean requestChildRectangleOnScreen(View child, Rect rect, boolean immediate) {
        Object tag = child.getTag();
        if( tag != null && tag.toString().equalsIgnoreCase("preventAutoScroll") ){
            return false;
        }
        return super.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(child, rect, immediate);
    }
It has to be focusable and clickable, because it's a TextView and the text needs to be selectable.
Set an overriden version of the layout manager on recycler view. In my case I wanted to disable for when a certain child view was focused e.g.
LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(context) {
        @Override
        public boolean requestChildRectangleOnScreen(RecyclerView parent, View child, Rect rect, boolean immediate, boolean focusedChildVisible) {
            if (((ViewGroup) child).getFocusedChild() instanceof YourFocusableChildViewClass) {                    
                return false;
            }
            return super.requestChildRectangleOnScreen(parent, child, rect, immediate, focusedChildVisible);
        }
    };
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