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Asked: 2026-06-15T15:28:17+00:00

My end goal is to create an Activity in Android that displays two or

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My end goal is to create an Activity in Android that displays two or more images in a scrollable vertical list. The problem is I keep trying different Views and I’m not sure what the best choice is for my situation.

The ideal implementation will allow me to do all of the following:

  1. Display images asynchronously as they are fetched from the server.
  2. Avoid VM memory issues when I have 10+ images.
  3. Zoom/pan either all images at once or images in individually

My implementation uses a single bitmap comprised of all the images in a custom SurfaceView but I can already see how it makes #1 and #2 difficult. I only have #3 working.

I’ve also tried using a ListView but I couldn’t successfully implement #3.

I’m relatively new to Android development but the way I see it the custom SurfaceView can give me #3 and a custom ListView can give me #1 and #2. Would creating a ListView comprised of custom SurfaceViews (one per image) be the right approach or am I way off track? Is there a better approach to my situation?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ended up resolving this by using a ListView comprised of ImageViews. This resolved #1 and #2. Then to deal with pan/zoom I added an onClick listener to the rows of the ListView. This fires an Intent passing the ImageView’s bitmap to a new activity which uses a SurfaceView to render the bitmap where I hanlde zoom/panning for #3.

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