I've read in a few posts that there was an bug in the how the Gallery widget recycles views, that it was targeted for Eclair, but it looks like it's still an issue. I'm trying to use an extended Gallery (all I do is override getChildStaticTransformation). The Gallery items are all simple custom views that simply draw a FastBitmapDrawable, the images are pre-scaled, very lean and very basic. All items are 280x320 jpg's, so not huge individually.
As I scroll through the gallery, I get to the same point each time and when I call BitmapFactory.decodeFlie(path) I get the "bitmap size exceeds VM budget" error. I've offset the start point in the list and it's not a specific image causing the issue, it's when I've decoded a certain number of images from disk. The other posts indicate that it's cumulative; multiple bitmaps are being held in memory instead of being recycled, and I assumed this was because the Gallery views aren't being recycled properly and hanging on to their bitmaps. I've tried paging the image set to 10-20 images at a time, this works but after a few pages I get the same exception. Is there any workaround for this? Even if it's addressed in an update, it's not really viable to wait since all phones aren't going to just instantly upgrade once an upgrade is released (judging by how slowly 2.0/2.1 is rolling out). Without a fix or workaround, the Gallery seems pretty much useless for images (unless there's only a few). Thanks in advance.
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