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.

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

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。

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

RecyclerView相对于listview的优点:

默认包含ViewHolder。 简单的动画。 支持水平，网格和交错布局

listView相对于recyclerView的优点:

易于添加分隔线。 可以使用内置的arrayAdapter简单的普通列表 支持页眉和页脚。 支持OnItemClickListner。

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。