Starting with lists

If you have heard of RecyclerView, you might wonder why we are going through ListView. The RecyclerView widget is new; it came out with Android Lollipop, and is a revolution when displaying a list of items; it can do it vertically and horizontally, as a list or as a grid, or with nice animations among other improvements.

Answering the question, even if RecyclerView is more efficient and flexible in some scenarios, it needs extra coding to achieve the same result, so there are still reasons to use ListView. For example, there is no onItemClickListener() for item selection in RecyclerView, and there is no visual feedback when we click on an item. If we don't need customization and animations, for instance for a simple data picker popup, this could be a dialog where we just have to select a country. In this case, it's perfectly fine to use ListView rather than RecyclerView.

Another reason to start with ListView is that RecyclerView solves most of the problems presented...