I used RecyclerView inside a NestedScrollView and it worked for me. The only gotcha I had to keep in mind was that a NestedScrollView takes only one child view. So in my case I used of LienearLayout viewgroup which was housing my RecyclerView plus a number of other views that I needed.
I experience one issue putting my RecyclerView inside the NestedScrollView. I realized that scrolling the content of my RecyclerView slacked.
I later realized that my RecyclerView was receiving the scrolling event and therefore was conflicting with the scrolling behavior of the NestedScrollView.
So to solve that problem, I had to disable the scroll functionality of my RecyclerView with this method movieListNewRecyclerView.setNestedScrollingEnabled(false);
You can checkout my Instagram for a short video of what I actually did. This is my instagram handle ofelix03