Reusing same ImageView multiple times in the same scene on JavaFX

Question

I\'m trying to build a Twitter-style ListView, and I couldn\'t reuse the same ImageView multiple times in the same list. Loading multiple copies seem to be wasteful and caus

Answer 1

Caching images is good way.

Also You can load images in background, it greatly improve performance.

public Image getImage(String path, boolean backload) {
   image = imageCache.get(path);
   if (image == null) {
      image = new Image(path, backload);
      imageCache.put(path, image);
   }
   return image;
}