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Also adding that I notice a crash while repro-ing this:

2021-01-25 11:47:32.315 17990-17990/paging.android.example.com.pagingsample E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: paging.android.example.com.pagingsample, PID: 17990
    java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 3, Size: 3
        at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:437)
        at androidx.paging.PageFetcherSnapshot.doLoad(PageFetcherSnapshot.kt:370)
        at androidx.paging.PageFetcherSnapshot$collectAsGenerationalViewportHints$$inlined$collect$1.emit(Collect.kt:133)
        at kotlinx.coroutines.flow.FlowKt__ChannelsKt.emitAllImpl$FlowKt__ChannelsKt(Channels.kt:61)
        at kotlinx.coroutines.flow.FlowKt__ChannelsKt$emitAllImpl$1.invokeSuspend(Unknown Source:11)
        at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)
        at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:106)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7660)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)
2021-01-25 11:47:32.501 14519-14615/com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox E/MDD: DownloadProgressMonitor: Can't find file for uri: android://com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/files/sharedminusonemodule/shared/SharedMinusOneData.pb.tmp
2021-01-25 11:48:08.376 2197-9975/com.android.phone E/PhoneInterfaceManager: [PhoneIntfMgr] getCarrierPrivilegeStatus: Invalid subId
2021-01-25 11:48:28.470 914-914/? E/BatteryDefender: Failed to read /sys/class/power_supply/wireless/online

For #3, filed separately here: b/178448265

Hmm so I thought about this for awhile and it seems quite difficult to solve - essentially what is happening is we are prepending more items than there are number of placeholders due to the addition of separators, so it's impossible to scroll to the top before prepending because we don't know how many items to scroll up by. Basically the placeholders don't map 1:1 to the original item, so we have to decide how and where to notify RV that there are extra items and the current behavior for prepend is to always send the onInserted event to notify new items above the current position to handle the regular scrolling via swipe scenario.

In the swipe scroll case, user wants to see the bottom items from prepended page first, and then have extra items added above the scroll position, but in the scroll to top case we want to see the top items first, and then add extra items to the bottom. Since scrollToPosition always puts the desired index to position at the top, we need some way to tell paging that if we prepend due to call to scrollToPosition, we basically need to switch the order of the differ events to work like append instead.

As a simple workaround, you can set jumpThreshold in PagingConfig to be the same as maxSize, and this will cause paging to use the refresh / invalidate flow to load from the scrollToPosition index (which is what you want anyway in large jumps instead of prepending until you get there).