Android Map Performance poor because of many Overlays?

Question

I have a map in my android application that shows many markers (~20-50). But the app performs very poor when i try to scroll/zoom (in Google Android Maps i did a sample search f

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem last night, and my solution was the same as yours. I felt weird about how I called the populate method.

I had the same code as you but I called

speedyPopulate() { 
  populate(); 
}

in the MyOverlay class