为了使列表视图具有良好的性能，您需要实现holder模式，这很容易搞砸，特别是当您想用几种不同类型的视图填充列表时。

RecyclerView烘焙了这个模式，使它更难以搞砸。它也更灵活，更容易处理不同的布局，不是直线，如网格。

除了以上差异之外，还有以下几个:

RV separates view creation and binding of data to view. In LV, you need to check if convertView is null or not for creating view, before binding data to it. So, in case of RV, view will be created only when it is needed but in case of LV, one can miss the check for convertview and will create view everytime. Switching between Grid and List is more easy now with LayoutManager. No need to notify and update all items, even if only single item is changed. One had to implement view caching in case of LV. It is provided in RV by default. (There is difference between view caching n recycling.) Very easy item animations in case of RV.

为了使列表视图具有良好的性能，您需要实现holder模式，这很容易搞砸，特别是当您想用几种不同类型的视图填充列表时。

RecyclerView烘焙了这个模式，使它更难以搞砸。它也更灵活，更容易处理不同的布局，不是直线，如网格。

I think the main and biggest difference they have is that ListView looks for the position of the item while creating or putting it, on the other hand RecyclerView looks for the type of the item. if there is another item created with the same type RecyclerView does not create it again. It asks first adapter and then asks to recycledpool, if recycled pool says "yeah I've created a type similar to it", then RecyclerView doesn't try to create same type. ListView doesn't have a this kind of pooling mechanism.

In my opinion RecyclerView was made to address the problem with the recycle pattern used in listviews because it was making developer's life more difficult. All the other you could handle more or less. For instance I use the same adapter for ListView and GridView it doesn't matter in both views the getView, getItemCount, getTypeCount is used so it's the same. RecyclerView isn't needed if ListView with ListAdapter or GridView with grid adapters is already working for you. If you have implemented correctly the ViewHolder pattern in your listviews then you won't see any big improvement over RecycleView.

ListView和RecyclerView之间有很多区别，但你应该特别注意以下几点:

ViewHolder模式在ListView中是完全可选的，但它被烘焙到RecyclerView中。 ListView只支持垂直滚动，但RecyclerView并不局限于垂直滚动列表。