Use ListView or RecyclerView in NavigationDrawer?

Question

I am a little confused about whether to use RecyclerView or ListView in DrawerLayout.
I read a tutorial, which explains how to create a NavigationDrawer with RecyclerView.
According to google: RecyclerView is
1) a container for displaying large data sets that can be scrolled very efficiently by maintaining a limited number of views.
2) Uses internally a layout manager. A layout manager positions item views inside a RecyclerView and determines when to reuse item views that are no longer visible to the user. To reuse (or recycle) a view, a layout manager may ask the adapter to replace the contents of the view with a different element from the dataset.

Because there is a very small dataset (header + a short list) in Navigation Drawer and all items are still visible to user, I couldn't benefit from recycler view "features" in 1) & 2).
Even Google used ListView in NavigationDrawer.
I guess I could use ListView.addHeader() to create a special view for header in DrawerLayout.
So my question is If I should prefer RecyclerView over ListView in DrawerLayout ?

Answer 1

Using Navigation Drawer is very complicated, Google came up with a better and easier way to implement drawers the NavigationView, and your list should now be a "menu", that you can define in a separate xml file, no need for Adapters anymore. For more info on how to implement it check the official android blog here