The easiest thing to do is to create a LRU cache for your images, using SoftReferences. You can find an example of such a cache in my app Shelves: code.google.com/p/shelves. I use this technique to load hundreds of book covers.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Nerdrow <[email protected]> wrote: > I've read in a few posts that there was an bug in the how the Gallery > widget recycles views, that it was targeted for Eclair, but it looks > like it's still an issue. I'm trying to use an extended Gallery (all > I do is override getChildStaticTransformation). The Gallery items are > all simple custom views that simply draw a FastBitmapDrawable, the > images are pre-scaled, very lean and very basic. All items are > 280x320 jpg's, so not huge individually. > > As I scroll through the gallery, I get to the same point each time and > when I call BitmapFactory.decodeFlie(path) I get the "bitmap size > exceeds VM budget" error. I've offset the start point in the list and > it's not a specific image causing the issue, it's when I've decoded a > certain number of images from disk. The other posts indicate that > it's cumulative; multiple bitmaps are being held in memory instead of > being recycled, and I assumed this was because the Gallery views > aren't being recycled properly and hanging on to their bitmaps. I've > tried paging the image set to 10-20 images at a time, this works but > after a few pages I get the same exception. > > Is there any workaround for this? Even if it's addressed in an > update, it's not really viable to wait since all phones aren't going > to just instantly upgrade once an upgrade is released (judging by how > slowly 2.0/2.1 is rolling out). Without a fix or workaround, the > Gallery seems pretty much useless for images (unless there's only a > few). > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > 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 > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them
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