Flexible and conductive materials (FCMs) are the key building blocks of next-generation electronics such as smart phone, E-skins, folding E-books, strain sensors as well as stretchable solar cell. Thus, fabricating high-quality FCMs is of great importance to the development of future flexible electronics. Traditional conductive materials are mainly prepared by indium tin oxide (ITO) which is rigid and could not satisfy the needs of novel flexible electronics. Several materials have been applied to replace ITO in the fabrication of flexible electrodes including graphene, carbon nanotubes, conducting polymer and metal nano-materials. Among all the alternatives of ITO, silver nanowires (AgNWs), as a novel nano-material, inherited the high electrical conductivity from metal Ag. Besides, the nanometer-sized effect imparts AgNWs both excellent optical property and flexibility, which endows it great potential in the application of FCMs. This review separately illustrates flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) and stretchable electrodes based on AgNWs. For AgNWs-based FTEs,several coating methods and the post-treatment of AgNWs-based FTEs such as high-temperature annealing and mechanical pressing were introduced and the advantage and disadvantage of each method were stated.In addition,AgNWs-based stretchable electrodes could be prepared by integrating AgNWs with stretchable matric. Here, AgNWs-based electrodes with different shapes were introduced in detail including two-dimensional, three-dimensional as well as fibrous electrodes and their fabrication methods were also presented.Meanwhile, AgNWs are composited with a second electrically conductive material to obtain flexible electrodes with more excellent performance. Finally, the future developments ofAgNWs-based FCMs were proposed.