Do you know what shortcomings ListView has compared to RecyclerView?

Yes, I know.

ListView has several significant disadvantages compared to RecyclerView:

• Lack of built-in ViewHolder reuse: In ListView, you need to manually implement the ViewHolder pattern for efficient View reuse to avoid inflating the layout for each new item. RecyclerView does this automatically.
• Inefficient Scrolling: Scrolling in ListView is less smooth, especially when dealing with a large number of diverse items, because it needs to recreate Views for each item that becomes visible.
• No Built-in Animation Support: ListView does not provide native tools for adding animations when inserting, deleting, or moving items. RecyclerView has an API for this.
• Complex Implementation of Different View Types: Handling different View types for various rows in ListView is more cumbersome and requires more boilerplate code compared to RecyclerView, where this is logically separated in the adapter (getItemViewType).
• Lack of Layout Managers: ListView only supports vertical or horizontal layout of items. RecyclerView uses LayoutManager, which makes it easy to switch between linear, grid, and other complex layouts.
• Limited Data Change Notifications: When data in the source changes, ListView requires calling notifyDataSetChanged(), which causes the entire list to redraw. RecyclerView allows more granular methods (notifyItemInserted(), notifyItemRemoved(), notifyItemChanged()), which are more efficient and can be accompanied by animations.