Android : RecyclerView Adapter and ViewHolder update dynamically

I am trying to make an app that will be loading news from the network and will be updating dynamically. I am using a RecyclerView and CardView to display the content. I use Jsoup to parse sites. I don't think that my code is needed because my question is more theoretical than practical. I want to understand the process of dynamic updating using notifyDataSetChanged(). In my main activity I get all the headers and add them to list. But I need to wait untill all the items are loaded to start displaying them. I would really appreciate if someone could post a sample code of what I'm trying to do because I couldn't find a lot of information about combining ViewHolder, Adapter and RecyclerView.