Android - The advantage of using ImageView over the background property of a simple view

I have been using Android for a while, and most of the time I used the background property for view objects to refer to some drawings in my project, mainly because I add some content or functionality to the content.

However, recently I am working on a project that requires a lot of static images that just sit without additional functions, so I use ImageView.

However, I did not fully understand the benefits of using ImageView, but only because scaleType