Using android glide image library

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17 Aug

In part 7 of the android performance optimisations for recyclerview image galleries we will be using android glide image library to compare image gallery scrolling performance against the other solutions in this tutorial series. ADD GRADLE DEPENDENCY FOR GLIDE dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:22.0.+' compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.6.0' compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2' } CALL GLIDE […]

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Android performance with inBitmap

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05 Aug

In the Android performance with inBitmap tutorial we add the BitmapFactory.Option’s inBitmap flag which can be used for bitmaps that have been evicted from the memory cache but not yet deallocated. This is only supported for android versions Honeycomb or later. Implementation Create a Set of SoftReferenced Bitmaps CamaraIntentActivity private static Set<SoftReference<Bitmap>> mReuseableBitmap; Initialise the […]

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Android Camera2 API LooknFeel

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03 Aug

Android Camera2 API LooknFeel – Part 1 of a new tutorial series on how to use the android camera 2 api’s. Part 1 focuses on the look & feel of the application, which is based on the recyclerview image gallery Code available on github You can clone the code from https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag looknfeel or else you […]

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Resolving concurrency issues

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22 Jul

This tutorial is about resolving concurrency issues that happen when issuing AsyncTasks when using RecyclerViews in android applications. Get Code You can download the code from github here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag concurrency Or else run this command git clone –branch concurrency https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Create a class derived from BitmapDrawable public static class AsyncDrawable extends BitmapDrawable { final WeakReference<BitmapWorkerTask> taskReference; […]

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Testing picasso image library

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13 Jul

This is part 1 of the android tutorial performance series. We look for a quick and fast solution with testing Picasso image library. It’s mainly a convenience library for downloading images from the internet but also has caching support which we will be looking to use to improve the performance of the recyclerview image gallery […]

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