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。

以下是RecyclerView和ListView之间的几个关键点/区别。明智地接电话。

If ListView works for you, there is no reason to migrate. If you are writing a new UI, you might be better off with RecyclerView. RecylerView has inbuilt ViewHolder, doesn't need to implement our own like in listView. It support notify at particular index as well Things like animating the addition or removal of items are already implemented in the RecyclerView without you having to do anything We can associate a layout manager with a RecyclerView, this can be used for getting random views in recycleview while this was limitation in ListView In a ListView, the only type of view available is the vertical ListView. There is no official way to even implement a horizontal ListView. Now using a RecyclerView, we can have a i) LinearLayoutManager - which supports both vertical and horizontal lists, ii) StaggeredLayoutManager - which supports Pinterest like staggered lists, iii) GridLayoutManager - which supports displaying grids as seen in Gallery apps. And the best thing is that we can do all these dynamically as we want.

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.

RecyclerView信息

RecyclerView是在Android 5.0 (Lollipop)中引入的。它包含在支持库中。因此，它与Android API Level 7兼容。

与ListView类似，RecyclerView的主要思想是以一种性能友好的方式提供列表功能。这个视图名称中的“Recycler”部分并不是巧合。RecyclerView实际上可以回收它当前正在使用的项目。循环过程是通过一个名为View Holder的模式完成的。

RecyclerView的优点和缺点

优点:

集成的动画添加，更新和删除项目 通过使用ViewHolder模式强制循环视图 同时支持网格和列表 支持垂直和水平滚动 可以和DiffUtil一起使用吗

缺点:

增加了复杂性 没有OnItemClickListener

列表查看信息

ListView在Android诞生之初就已经存在了。它甚至可以在API级别1中使用，它与RecyclerView具有相同的用途。

ListView的用法其实很简单。在这方面，它不像它的后继者。学习曲线比RecyclerView更平滑。因此，它更容易掌握。我们不需要处理LayoutManager, ItemAnimator或DiffUtil之类的东西。

ListView的优点和缺点

优点:

简单的使用 默认的适配器 可用OnItemClickListener 它是expandabelistview的基础

缺点:

没有使用ViewHolder模式

简单的回答:在想要显示许多项，并且它们的数量是动态的情况下，应该使用RecyclerView。ListView应该只在项目数量总是相同并且受屏幕大小限制的情况下使用。

你会发现这很难，因为你只考虑Android库。

现在有很多选项可以帮助您构建自己的适配器，使您可以轻松地构建动态项目的列表和网格，您可以选择、重新排序、使用动画、分隔符、添加页脚、页眉等等。

不要害怕，给一个尝试RecyclerView，你可以开始喜欢它从一个ListView和一个RecyclerView中从网络下载的100个项目的列表，当你尝试滚动时，你会看到UX(用户体验)的差异，可能测试应用程序会在你甚至可以这样做之前停止。

我建议你检查这两个库来制作简单的适配器:

mikepenz的FastAdapter

davideas的FlexibleAdapter

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.