In gridview adapter, getView(position == 0) was invoked too many times to measure layout when setImageBitmap() in a loader

Question

I have a GridView for showing some icons.

BEFORE I had read this Displaying Bitmaps Efficiently from Android developer site, I was decoding bitmap from loca

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Grid is always measuring its first child, even if I am in 30 position.
I just bypass the whole getView code by adding this check in getView top:

@Override
public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    // Patch for multiple getView for position 0
    if(convertView!=null && position==0 && viewGrid.getFirstVisiblePosition()>1) return convertView;

This does not stop getView being called, but at least texts, images and layout changes don' t run.