In the android profiling image libraries the winner tutorial we find out which android image loading library is best for the recyclerview grid gallery. At the beginning of this activity I was not sure if they would be enough differences to point to one clear winner best suited for the android recyclerview grid gallery. But […]

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In this review we spend time profiling universal image loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW In comparison with the other libraries we observed more than one thread pool with each pool consisting of three threads. At some stages the threads in each pool were executing at the […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android fresco loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW Here we observe four background threads loading the image files with no noticeable pauses in the UI thread. It was noted that scrolling performance was good compared with the other image loading libraries. MEMORY […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android picasso loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools.   Results TRACEVIEW Here we observe three background threads all running at the same time resulting in much quicker image loading. Also note the lack of significant spaces in the main ui thread which translates into […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android glide loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW Here we observe four background threads all running at the same time resulting in much quicker image loading. Also note the lack of significant spaces in the main ui thread which translates […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android recyclerview grid gallery using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW From this chart we can observe that a android AsyncTask has been used to handle the bitmap loading which is not the best method for this type of application. Note the gaps […]

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The android profiling introduction is a new android video tutorial series whose aim is to highlight any differences between the android image loading libraries. There are a number of high quality android image loading libraries provided and the intention of this tutorial series is to support android developers in their selection process for which android […]

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This tutorial describes how to create an android recyclerview grid gallery by converting the original single column gallery to multiple columns. CODE AVAILABLE ON GITHUB You can get the code from here and then you need to Tag multi-column-gallery or else you can run this command git clone --branch multi-column-gallery https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git CODE SAMPLES activity_camara_intent.xml <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" […]

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This android camera2 api tutorial explain how to move time consuming tasks off the main ui thread to the android camera2 api background handler. DOWNLOAD THE CODE The code samples are now provided on github here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag camera2-handler or else run this command git clone —branch camera2-handler https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git CODE SAMPLES Creating the HandlerThread & […]

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We return to the origins of this tutorial series and call the android picasso image resize feature. If this is not used picasso will load the full images. Which will have an obvious impact on the scrolling speed of the android recyclerview image gallery. CODE AVAILABLE ON GITHUB You can download the code from github […]

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