In the android profiling image libraries the winner tutorial we find out which android image loading library is best for the recyclerview grid gallery. At the beginning of this activity I was not sure if they would be enough differences to point to one clear winner best suited for the android recyclerview grid gallery. But […]

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In this review we spend time profiling universal image loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW In comparison with the other libraries we observed more than one thread pool with each pool consisting of three threads. At some stages the threads in each pool were executing at the […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android fresco loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW Here we observe four background threads loading the image files with no noticeable pauses in the UI thread. It was noted that scrolling performance was good compared with the other image loading libraries. MEMORY […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android picasso loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools.   Results TRACEVIEW Here we observe three background threads all running at the same time resulting in much quicker image loading. Also note the lack of significant spaces in the main ui thread which translates into […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android glide loader library using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW Here we observe four background threads all running at the same time resulting in much quicker image loading. Also note the lack of significant spaces in the main ui thread which translates […]

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In this review we spend time profiling android recyclerview grid gallery using the traceview, memory monitor & GPU render profiling tools. Results TRACEVIEW From this chart we can observe that a android AsyncTask has been used to handle the bitmap loading which is not the best method for this type of application. Note the gaps […]

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The android profiling introduction is a new android video tutorial series whose aim is to highlight any differences between the android image loading libraries. There are a number of high quality android image loading libraries provided and the intention of this tutorial series is to support android developers in their selection process for which android […]

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