Question

I’m using Lazy Loading List in my application and I need to load only the visible elements of ListView.I’ve search over the internet,tried a lot of things but still cannot get the things to work.Can you give me a suggestion how to do it?

Here is the ImageLoader class :

package com.stampii.stampii.tableview;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Stack;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.CipherInputStream;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import com.stampii.stampii.R;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class ImageLoader {

    //the simplest in-memory cache implementation. This should be replaced with something like SoftReference or BitmapOptions.inPurgeable(since 1.6)
    private HashMap<String, Bitmap> cache=new HashMap<String, Bitmap>();

    private File cacheDir;
    private AssetManager mAssetManager;


    public ImageLoader(Context context){
        //Make the background thead low priority. This way it will not affect the UI performance
        photoLoaderThread.setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY-1);
        mAssetManager = context.getAssets();

        //Find the dir to save cached images
        if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED))
            cacheDir=new File(android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"Stampii");
        else
            cacheDir=context.getCacheDir();
        if(!cacheDir.exists())
            cacheDir.mkdirs();
    }


    final int stub_id=R.drawable.default_img;
    public void DisplayImage(String url, Activity activity, ImageView imageView)
    {
        if(cache.containsKey(url))
            imageView.setImageBitmap(cache.get(url));
        else
        {
            queuePhoto(url, activity, imageView);
            imageView.setImageResource(stub_id);
        }    
    }

    private void queuePhoto(String url, Activity activity, ImageView imageView)  //opashka
    {
        //This ImageView may be used for other images before. So there may be some old tasks in the queue. We need to discard them. 
        photosQueue.Clean(imageView);
        PhotoToLoad p=new PhotoToLoad(url, imageView);
        synchronized(photosQueue.photosToLoad){
            photosQueue.photosToLoad.push(p);
            photosQueue.photosToLoad.notifyAll();
        }

        //start thread if it's not started yet
        if(photoLoaderThread.getState()==Thread.State.NEW)
            photoLoaderThread.start();
    }

    private Bitmap getBitmap(String src) {
        Bitmap myBitmap = null;


                //Decryption
                try {
                Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/NoPadding");
                SecretKeySpec keySpec = new SecretKeySpec("01234567890abcde".getBytes(), "AES");
                IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec("fedcba9876543210".getBytes());
                cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, keySpec, ivSpec);

                InputStream input = mAssetManager.open(src);
                CipherInputStream cis = new CipherInputStream(input, cipher);

                myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(cis);

                }
                catch(Exception e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    Log.v("ERROR","Error : "+e);
                }


                return myBitmap;


        }

    //Task for the queue
    private class PhotoToLoad
    {
        public String url;
        public ImageView imageView;
        public PhotoToLoad(String u, ImageView i){
            url=u; 
            imageView=i;
        }
    }

    PhotosQueue photosQueue=new PhotosQueue();

    public void stopThread()
    {
        photoLoaderThread.interrupt();
    }

    //stores list of photos to download
    class PhotosQueue
    {
        private Stack<PhotoToLoad> photosToLoad=new Stack<PhotoToLoad>();

        //removes all instances of this ImageView
        public void Clean(ImageView image)
        {
            for(int j=0 ;j<photosToLoad.size();){
                if(photosToLoad.get(j).imageView==image)
                    photosToLoad.remove(j);
                else
                    ++j;
            }
        }
    }

    class PhotosLoader extends Thread {
        public void run() {
            try {
                while(true)
                {
                    //thread waits until there are any images to load in the queue
                    if(photosQueue.photosToLoad.size()==0)
                        synchronized(photosQueue.photosToLoad){
                            photosQueue.photosToLoad.wait();
                        }
                    if(photosQueue.photosToLoad.size()!=0)
                    {
                        PhotoToLoad photoToLoad;
                        synchronized(photosQueue.photosToLoad){
                            photoToLoad=photosQueue.photosToLoad.pop();
                        }
                        Bitmap bmp=getBitmap(photoToLoad.url);
                        cache.put(photoToLoad.url, bmp);
                        Object tag=photoToLoad.imageView.getTag();
                        if(tag!=null && ((String)tag).equals(photoToLoad.url)){
                            BitmapDisplayer bd=new BitmapDisplayer(bmp, photoToLoad.imageView);
                            Activity a=(Activity)photoToLoad.imageView.getContext();
                            a.runOnUiThread(bd);
                        }
                    }
                    if(Thread.interrupted())
                        break;
                }
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                //allow thread to exit
            }
        }
    }

    PhotosLoader photoLoaderThread=new PhotosLoader();

    //Used to display bitmap in the UI thread
    class BitmapDisplayer implements Runnable
    {
        Bitmap bitmap;
        ImageView imageView;
        public BitmapDisplayer(Bitmap b, ImageView i){bitmap=b;imageView=i;}
        public void run()
        {
            if(bitmap!=null)
                imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
            else
                imageView.setImageResource(stub_id);
        }
    }

    public void clearCache() {
        //clear memory cache

        long size=0;
            cache.clear();

            //clear SD cache
            File[] files=cacheDir.listFiles();
            for(File f:files){
                size=size+f.length();
                    f.delete();
            }
    }




}

EDIT1:

getView method in my LazyAdapter class :

   public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View vi=convertView;
        ViewHolder holder;
        if(convertView==null){
            vi = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item, null);
            holder=new ViewHolder();
            holder.name=(TextView)vi.findViewById(R.id.name);
            holder.info=(TextView)vi.findViewById(R.id.info);
            holder.image=(ImageView)vi.findViewById(R.id.image);
            vi.setTag(holder);
        }
        else
            holder=(ViewHolder)vi.getTag();

        holder.name.setText("MotoGP Rider");
        holder.info.setText("Category");
        holder.image.setTag(data[position]);
        imageLoader.DisplayImage(data[position], activity, holder.image);
        return vi;
    }

Any ideas?

Answer 1

After checking the code: I am sure that ONLY the images that are visible are being loaded!

BUT because some of the images down have the same url! You will think that they are loading in a different order. However they are loaded based on the images visible but any other listitem with the same url will show the image.

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I’m using Lazy Loading List in my application and I need to load only the visible elements of ListView.

getView is called for each position that is visible on the ListView

The pictures you need to load must be added to the queue from the getView of the Adapter

So you should Override

public View   getView  (int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent){
    super(position,convertView,parent);
    //now add the picture at position to the queue
}

Note: Be careful

Say you added photo 1 to the queue: This does not mean that getView will not be called again with position 1.

In other words, account for the fact that a position may be called many times using getView.