Slow performance compared to Tusky

[Offerel]

I have been using Mastodon as a platform for some time and am quite happy with it. I compared various Android apps, including Mastodon and Tusky. There are many photography topics in my timeline. It is noticeable that the timeline with Tusky loads much faster than with Mastodon. Photos in particular take much longer with Mastodon to turn from a blurry preview into a sharp image.

Why is that? The timeline and the instance are identical.

[grishka]

It's because the image loader I'm using was written a long time ago primarily with ListView in mind. It didn't do a very good job of tracking how fast you're scrolling and was canceling requests too often thinking you're scrolling too fast. Now that I've rewritten that part with RecyclerView in mind, it should get better in the next update.