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.

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.

RecyclerView是一个新的ViewGroup，准备渲染任何 以类似的方式创建基于适配器的视图。它应该是 ListView和GridView的继承者，它可以在 最新的support-v7版本。已经开发了RecyclerView 考虑到可扩展性，因此可以创建任何类型的 你能想到的布局，但也不能没有一点恼人的地方 剂量。

安东尼奥·莱瓦的回答

 compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.0.0'

RecyclerView确实是一个比ListView强大的视图。 欲了解更多详情，请访问此页面。

ListView是RecyclerView的祖先。有很多事情ListView没有做，或者做得不好。如果您要收集ListView的缺点，并通过将问题抽象到不同的域来解决问题，那么您最终会得到类似于回收器视图的东西。下面是ListViews的主要问题点:

Didn't enforce View Reuse for same item types (look at one of the adapters that are used in a ListView, if you study the getView method you will see that nothing prevents a programmer from creating a new view for every row even if one is passed in via the convertView variable) Didn't prevent costly findViewById uses(Even if you were recycling views as noted above it was possible for devs to be calling findViewById to update the displayed contents of child views. The main purpose of the ViewHolder pattern in ListViews was to cache the findViewById calls. However this was only available if you knew about it as it wasn't part of the platform at all) Only supported Vertical Scrolling with Row displayed Views (Recycler view doesn't care about where views are placed and how they are moved, it's abstracted into a LayoutManager. A Recycler can therefore support the traditional ListView as shown above, as well as things like the GridView, but it isn't limited to that, it can do more, but you have to do the programming foot work to make it happen). Animations to added/removed was not a use case that was considered. It was completely up to you to figure out how go about this (compare the RecyclerView. Adapter classes notify* method offerings v. ListViews to get an idea).

简而言之，RecyclerView是一个更灵活的ListView，尽管你可能需要做更多的编码工作。

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.

RecyclerView被创建为一个ListView的改进，所以是的，你可以创建一个附加列表与ListView控件，但使用RecyclerView更容易，因为它:

在向上/向下滚动时重用单元格——这在ListView适配器中实现View Holder是可能的，但这是一个可选的事情，而在RecycleView中，这是默认的写适配器的方式。 解耦列表从它的容器-所以你可以很容易地把列表项在运行时在不同的容器(线性布局，gridLayout)通过设置LayoutManager。

例子:

mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
//or
mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(new GridLayoutManager(this, 2));

动画常用列表动作——动画被解耦并委托给ItemAnimator。

还有更多关于RecyclerView的内容，但我认为这些要点是主要的。

因此，综上所述，RecyclerView是处理“列表数据”的一个更灵活的控件，它遵循关注点的委托模式，只留给自己一个任务——回收项目。