ListView scrolling using UniversalImageDownloader not smooth

Question

I am using a ListView containing images. These images are loaded from the Internet inside the adapter. Therefore I am using the UniversalImageDownloader.

Unfortunately the scrolling of the ListView "lags" for a short time as soon as I scroll down where new content has to be downloaded.

I acutally expected behaviour like the ListView scrolls perfectly smooth, but the loading of the Image can of course take some more time - which should not effect the smoothness of scrolling.

Furthermore, as I scroll back up the lags occur as well. It seems as if the images are not cached properly.

Maybe my ImageLoader options are setup wrong?

Am I doing something wrong in my adapter?

The ListView contains about 20-30 Images with sizes 640x320 (around 150kb)

Below you can see my Adapter as well as the ImageLoader. (The class Downloader is just a wrapper class for the UniversalImageDownloader)

public class Downloader {

    /**
     * initializes the imagedownloader with a specific configuration
     * I CALL THIS METHOD RIGHT AFTER APP STARTUP
     * @param c
     */
    public static void initialize(Context c) {

         // Create global configuration and initialize ImageLoader with this configuration

        ImageLoaderConfiguration config = new ImageLoaderConfiguration.Builder(c)
        .threadPoolSize(20) 
        .threadPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY) // default
        .tasksProcessingOrder(QueueProcessingType.FIFO) // default
        .memoryCacheSize(20 * 1024 * 1024)
        .memoryCacheSizePercentage(15) // default
        .discCacheSize(20 * 1024 * 1024)
        .discCacheFileCount(100)
        .discCacheFileNameGenerator(new HashCodeFileNameGenerator()) // default
        .imageDecoder(new BaseImageDecoder()) // default
        .build();

        ImageLoader.getInstance().init(config);
    }

    /**
     * gets the display options that are needed when displaying an image
     * @return
     */
    public static DisplayImageOptions getDisplayOptions() {

         DisplayImageOptions options = new DisplayImageOptions.Builder()
        .showImageForEmptyUri(R.drawable.error)
        .showImageOnFail(R.drawable.error)
        .resetViewBeforeLoading(false)  // default
        .cacheInMemory(true) // default
        .cacheOnDisc(true) // default
        .build();

        return options;
    }

    public static ImageLoader getInstance() {
        return ImageLoader.getInstance();
    }
}

And the adapter:

public class EventListAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Event> {

    private List<Event> mList;
    private DisplayImageOptions options;

    public EventListAdapter(Context context, int list_item_resource, List<Event> objects) {
        super(context, list_item_resource, objects);
        mList = objects;

        options = Downloader.getDisplayOptions();
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

        Event event = mList.get(position);

        // A ViewHolder keeps references to children views to avoid unneccessary calls to findViewById() on each row.
        ViewHolder holder = null;

        if (convertView == null) {

            LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.normalevent_list_item, parent, false);

            holder = new ViewHolder();;

            holder.eventimage = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.ivEventImage);

            convertView.setTag(holder);

        } else {
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();

        }

        if (event != null) {

            holder.eventimage.setImageResource(R.drawable.loading);
            // Load image, decode it to Bitmap and display Bitmap in ImageView
            Downloader.getInstance().displayImage(event.getImageOneURL(), holder.eventimage, options);
        }

        return convertView;
    }

    private static class ViewHolder {   

        ImageView eventimage;
    } 
}

Answer 1

I had the same issue with image downloading. I solved it by setting delayBeforeLoading(1000) in my DisplayImageOptions. It is needed to start downloading when user stop fling.

so try to replace your getDisplayOptions method with this

 public static DisplayImageOptions getDisplayOptions() {

     DisplayImageOptions options = new DisplayImageOptions.Builder()
    .showImageForEmptyUri(R.drawable.error)
    .showImageOnFail(R.drawable.error)
    .delayBeforeLoading(1000) 
    .resetViewBeforeLoading(false)  // default
    .cacheInMemory(true) // default
    .cacheOnDisc(true) // default
    .build();

    return options;
}

Documentation also recommends to use this code to avoid grid/list view scroll lags

boolean pauseOnScroll = false; // or true
boolean pauseOnFling = true; // or false
PauseOnScrollListener listener = new PauseOnScrollListener(imageLoader, pauseOnScroll, pauseOnFling);
listView.setOnScrollListener(listener);

You can read it here (the last item of "Useful Info" list)

So you can use one of this methods