Android Views

Android Views, ImageView

Snippet: ImageView Layout Optimisation

Welcome to the second instalment of my new Android Snippet series. This one is a fairly short one as it points out an optimisation which was added in Android v4.0, but which can be easily backported to your applications for use in previous versions of Android. Scenario Imagine you have a 3-column GridView, each item is properly recycled in the Adapter, and contains an ImageView filling the View. You load each ImageView with a Bitmap downloaded from the web, in a background thread, which is cach