Difference between ScrollView and ListView

Question

Can any one explain the difference between Scroll View and List View? When to use which one? And which one is more efficient?

Answer 1

ScrollView is used to put different or same child views or layouts and the all can be scrolled.

ListView is used to put same child view or layout as multiple items. All these items are also scrollable.

Simply ScrollView is for both homogeneous and heterogeneous collection. ListView is for only homogeneous collection.

Answer 2

They're completely different.

A ScrollView is simple a scrolling container you can use to scroll whatever you put inside it, which might be a list of items, or it might not.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ScrollView.html

A ListView is very specifically designed to hold lists, where items typically look the same (or at least follow a pattern, e.g. section headings). ListView is also designed to connect to a data source of some sort, SQLite, array, content provider etc. ListView can scale to handle enormous numbers of list items.

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-listview.html

If you have data you need to show in a list, use a ListView. If you just need scrolling content, then a ScrollView is probbaly enough.