Question

I’ve got activity that has to do many things before it is visible. In proccess of loading view I have to load up bitmap/drawable that consume some time and prevents from other actions that could be done in that time. So i decide to move it to another thread. I’ve used Async Task, but this is not solid way of loading things. There are situations where task starts 1-2 sec after my view is shown! Is there anothe way to load bitmap/drawable that will not consume so much time and will allow to assign it to ImageView?

Answer 1

It is likely that you are still blocking your UI thread before executing the task. Use a logger to verify when your task is being executed.

If the task does take up a lot of time to execute then the bitmaps you are loading may be too large, in which case you should look at the down-sampling the images you are loading using the inSampleSize option with BitmapFactory.