Thank you Carmen Delessio for replying. This is helpful! On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Carmen Delessio wrote: > > Watch this video: > > http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/TurboChargeUiAndroidFast.html > > Check Mark Murphy's book http://commonsware.com/Android/index.html > > > > Read several posts here: > > http://www.androidguys.com/2008/07/14/fancy-listviews-part-one/ > > > > Short answer: > > ConvertView is a previously returned view. You can reuse it without > > having to make a view from scratch. > > So you can avoid costly operations. So you are correct about > optimization. > > See the holder pattern. > > Thanks for the shout-out! > > Since those blog posts are as old as the hills (in Android years), I > make the chapter in my original book that covers this topic available as > a free excerpt: > > http://commonsware.com/Android/excerpt.pdf > > For short lists, convertView is not a big deal. For long lists, it's > rather important to avoid creating ten tons of (memory) garbage. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 1.0 Available! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
