recyclerview vs listview: BONGDATV

RecyclerView VS ListView. Introduced in API 21 (Android 5.0), along with other MaterialDesign components, was the RecyclerView widget. This widget is a more flexible version of the ListView, which to many developers was their go-to AdapterView for applications.

As Android Developers, we can implement a Scrolling List using a ListView or a RecyclerView. Let's compare these two ways and discover 5 key differences between ListView and RecyclerView which every Android developer should know.

RecyclerView and ListView are two popular options for displaying long lists of data within an Android application. Both are subclasses of the ViewGroup class and can be used to display scrollable lists. However, they have different features, capabilities and implementation.

RecyclerView is more flexible and advanced version of ListView and GridView. RecyclerView is used for providing a limited window to a large data set, which means it is used to display a large amount of data that can be scrolled very efficiently by maintaining a limited number of Views.