In my app I need to download a lot of images for data in a ListView. I do lazy loading and it works rather fast, but still there is a 1-3 secs delay before the first image shows up. My research in the delay shows that the data transfer takes 50% of the time.
Now, I believe that If I could do incremental loading of the images, I would be able to show half an image after just 75% of the delay, which is quite good.
I use Drawable.createFromStream which uses BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream internally. But even though it takes a stream, it doesn't paint anything before all data is downloaded and decoded.
Do you know a way to load and paint images incrementally with the default Android lib? Or perhaps a good independent one out there?
