p.s. when running the debugger I don't appear to be using anything like 16mb of the allowed heap space... wonder if it's something else - if I don't have any luck I'll post my (likely very poor) code up here.
Thanks again. On Mar 14, 11:38 pm, Gesh <geo...@neofonie.de> wrote: > hi, > > I have written 2 connected apps with some image content pulled from > the web and must say if you handle your resources right it shouldn't > be a problem at all. > > Do you use your own Adapter for theGridViewor do you use some of the > already available ones in the SDK? If you use your own you should keep > in mind that when you deal with AdapterViews in general they keep > references to Views you create in your adapter and recycle them, so > try to reuse the convertView reference you get in the Adapter.getView > (int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) method. > > And although memory leaks are difficult to achieve in what sounds like > a single activity app the other thing that comes to mind is that you > might have memory leaks due to the way you use Drawables. Try using > Bitmaps from the BitmapFactory.decodeStream(InputStream) method and > maybe read this blog for more info why Drawables could cause memory > leaks > -http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks..... > > cheers, > gesh. > > On Mar 14, 12:47 pm, ifuller1 <ifuller1mob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've managed to successfully connect to the picasa web services using > > JSON and download a list of thumbnails from my picasa album. The > > thumbnails are all very small but I'm getting pretty terrible > > performance (especially when compared to the native picture viewer). > > As my main goal was getting the application working their is obviously > > lots of optimisation work I can do but I just wanted to know where the > > most likely cause of poor performance is coming from. Is it the memory > > usage (so I should try cleaning up existing objects) or is it display > > performance (can't cope with 30 thumbnails at once)? > > > Example thumbnail > > imagehttp://lh6.ggpht.com/_QIFTbqmwS8U/Samo30_xoBI/AAAAAAAAAEk/VeBxiukdKzU... > > > being loaded via Drawable.createFromStream > > > Thanks in advanced. > > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
