I have the same situation with you, display is ok, but error appear in the locat.
That's my solution:
(1) Initialize the RecyclerView & bind adapter ON CREATE()
RecyclerView mRecycler = (RecyclerView) this.findViewById(R.id.yourid);
mRecycler.setAdapter(adapter);
(2) call notifyDataStateChanged when you get the data
adapter.notifyDataStateChanged();
In the recyclerView's source code, there is other thread to check the state of data.
public RecyclerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    this.mObserver = new RecyclerView.RecyclerViewDataObserver(null);
    this.mRecycler = new RecyclerView.Recycler();
    this.mUpdateChildViewsRunnable = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            if(RecyclerView.this.mFirstLayoutComplete) {
                if(RecyclerView.this.mDataSetHasChangedAfterLayout) {
                    TraceCompat.beginSection("RV FullInvalidate");
                    RecyclerView.this.dispatchLayout();
                    TraceCompat.endSection();
                } else if(RecyclerView.this.mAdapterHelper.hasPendingUpdates()) {
                    TraceCompat.beginSection("RV PartialInvalidate");
                    RecyclerView.this.eatRequestLayout();
                    RecyclerView.this.mAdapterHelper.preProcess();
                    if(!RecyclerView.this.mLayoutRequestEaten) {
                        RecyclerView.this.rebindUpdatedViewHolders();
                    }
                    RecyclerView.this.resumeRequestLayout(true);
                    TraceCompat.endSection();
                }
            }
        }
    };
In the dispatchLayout(), we can find there is the error in it:
void dispatchLayout() {
    if(this.mAdapter == null) {
        Log.e("RecyclerView", "No adapter attached; skipping layout");
    } else if(this.mLayout == null) {
        Log.e("RecyclerView", "No layout manager attached; skipping layout");
    } else {