This is mainly a design question : My app connects to a server from where data is retrieved and presented in a listview. Depending on user-selection different data is retreived and filled in the list. A typical list item consists of a text string of up to some 50 or 60 characters depending what the server returns. Additionally, a small image icon is shown next to each string. The server may return any number of items from 0 up to many hundred or even thousands. It is possble to ask the server to iteratively return subsets of the content. The images are actually links to http- addresses, but I guess this still requires/allocates memory for the listview by Android.
How do I design for efficiency and responsiveness, considering memory consumption? Are there any generic guide lines on how many list items, Strings or Bytes to keep in memory? On the one hand I would like to have as many items in the list as possible - from a users perspective *all* items returned from the server would be expected. On the other, sending many queries to the server makes the app slower. I am not sure how to handle this situation since I do not have a feel for what android can handle in terms of memory. Any ideas would be of help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
