How to implement custom LayoutManager for RecyclerView with similar (but yet, very different) behavior as GridLayoutManager? (see picture)

Am I able to use (or extend) GridLayoutManager with spanCount: 2 and orientation: HORIZONTAL for this and just alter behavior by overriding some methods?

I need to change order and also position of items so the result will look like on right part of image.

I already achieved same result programatically, by adding "Bubble" Views as childs into FrameLayout and then setting their LayoutParams.leftMargin and LayoutParams.TopMargin accordingly.

The problem now is that I am using MotionLayout, because I also need scroll-based animations on this grid and I also need to use RecyclerView, because this grid can have size around 40 items.