> I'm developing a simple photo gallery application that pulls files
> from the Net and uses a ViewFlipper to change Views.
> Since I don't know how many Views the ViewFlipper will have, I have to
> add all the views in code and not in XML.
Consider using AdapterViewFlipper on Honeycomb.
> My question is: are all the Views of the ViewFlipper loaded in RAM?
Yes.
> If
> I use, fo instance, a gallery with 100 or even 1000 photos with
> 320x480, will I run the risk of running out of memory or is Android
> smart enough to and fetch and drop Views from memory as needed?
You will run out of heap space.
> The alternative is the use a ViewFlipper with just 3 views (current,
> previous and next) and load photos as needed but it is a cumbersome
> process.
Hopefully, later this year, AdapterViewFlipper will hit the AOSP
repository, and we can look to try it out on earlier versions of
Android.
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