For images loading from your drawable folder you shouldn't have too much of a problem and there isn't too much you can do about it (apart from perhaps not load any thumbnails while the user is scrolling - as per the Contacts app on 2.1+)
For HTTP images, and possibly images from the SD card depending on how large your thumbnails are, you'll want to a) Load them in a separate thread, and b) Not load any while the user is scrolling On Jul 23, 8:14 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Try getting rid of the icons briefly. If scrolling speed improves > dramatically, then the problem is in your icons. This would > particularly be true if the values you are trying to put into the > ImageView are HTTP URLs or something. > > > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:10 PM, QR <qro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm getting some very jerky scrolling while using the code below to > > create a ListView from a Cursor. Is there something I'm doing wrong, > > or any way to improve the performance of this ListView? > > > bookmarksListView = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.bookmarks_listview); > > bookmarksDbCursor = bookmarkStore.getCursor(); > > startManagingCursor(bookmarksDbCursor); > > String[] bookmarksColumns = new String[3]; > > bookmarksColumns[0] = "TITLE"; > > bookmarksColumns[1] = "URL"; > > bookmarksColumns[2] = "ICONID"; > > int[] bookmarksViews = new int[3]; > > bookmarksViews[0] = R.id.title_text; > > bookmarksViews[1] = R.id.subtitle_text; > > bookmarksViews[2] = R.id.icon_view; > > bookmarksListAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, > > R.layout.list_item, > > bookmarksDbCursor, > > bookmarksColumns, > > bookmarksViews); > > bookmarksListView.setAdapter(bookmarksListAdapter); > > bookmarksListView.setOnItemClickListener(new > > OnItemClickListener() > > { > > �...@override > > public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> > > parent, View view, > > int position, long id) { > > > > Toast.makeText(BookmarkHistoryTabActivity.this, "Clicked ID " + > > Long.toString(id), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); > > } > > }); > > registerForContextMenu(bookmarksListView); > > > Note: bookmarkStore.getCursor() returns an unmanaged cursor from a > > sqlite database containing the columns from bookmarksColumns. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki:http://wiki.andmob.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en