How does CursorAdapter work on android in GridView

Question

I have a problem with using cursor adapter on gridview which I used the cursor to load photos from the media store. I realized my newView and bindView got called completely. I mean assuming i have 500 photos, the newView also get called the same number of times.

Did I do anything wrong ? I thought it will only call when the cell was visible on the screen..

    public int taskA = 0;

public GalleryCursorAdapter(Context context, Cursor c) {
    super(context, c);
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}

@Override
public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    int index = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media._ID);
    long id = cursor.getLong(index);

    Bundle idBundle = new Bundle();
    idBundle.putLong("id", id);

    Message msg = new Message();
    msg.setData(idBundle);

    ImageHandler imgHandler = new ImageHandler(context, (ImageView) view);
    imgHandler.sendMessage(msg);

    view.setTag(imgHandler);
    Log.w("task s",  " count");
}

@SuppressLint({ "NewApi", "NewApi" })
@Override
public View newView(Context context, Cursor cursor, ViewGroup parent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    int index = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media._ID);
    long id = cursor.getLong(index);

    ImageView iView = new ImageView(context);

    Bundle idBundle = new Bundle();
    idBundle.putLong("id", id);

    Message msg = new Message();
    msg.setData(idBundle);

    ImageHandler imgHandler = new ImageHandler(context, iView);
    imgHandler.sendMessage(msg);

    iView.setTag(imgHandler);
    taskA++;
    Log.w("task s", taskA+ " count");
    return iView;
}

static class ImageHandler extends Handler {

    private ImageView mView;
    private Context mContext;

    public ImageHandler(Context c, ImageView v) {
        mView = v;
        mContext = c;
    }

    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message msg) {

        Bundle idBundle = msg.getData();

        Long id = idBundle.getLong("id");
        Bitmap image = MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(
                mContext.getContentResolver(), 
                id, 
                MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND, 
                new Options());

        mView.setImageBitmap(image);
    }
}

Answer 1

@Override
public View newView(Context context, Cursor cursor, ViewGroup parent) {
    ImageView iView = new ImageView(context);
    iView.setLayoutParams(new GridView.LayoutParams(200, 200));
    taskA++;
    Log.w("task s", taskA+ " count");
    return iView;
}

note, i removed all the code that isn't supposed to be in newView (it should be in bindView) replace new GridView.LayoutParams(200, 200) with whatever height/width you need, don't use wrap content as your content is empty at the beginning, resulting in 0x0 pixels, so ALL of the ImageViews from your cursor fit into the GridView at once (thus newView and bindView get called for every view)