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    copied!<p>I have a ListView that uses a custom adapter. The custom adapter's getView uses all the recommended practices:</p> <pre><code>@Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { SuscriptionsViewsHolder holder; ItemInRootList item = mItemsInList.get(position); if (convertView == null) { convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.label, null); holder = new SuscriptionsViewsHolder(); holder.label = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.label_label); holder.icon = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.label_icon); convertView.setTag(holder); } else { holder = (SuscriptionsViewsHolder) convertView.getTag(); } String text = String.format("%1$s (%2$s)", item.title, item.unreadCount); holder.label.setText(text); holder.icon.setImageResource(item.isLabel ? R.drawable.folder : R.drawable.file ); return convertView; } </code></pre> <p>However when I scroll, it is sluggish because of heavy garbage collection:</p> <pre><code>GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 87K, 48% free 2873K/5447K, external 516K/519K, paused 30ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 7K, 48% free 2866K/5447K, external 1056K/1208K, paused 29ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2866K/5447K, external 1416K/1568K, paused 28ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 5K, 48% free 2865K/5447K, external 1600K/1748K, paused 27ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2865K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 30ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 2K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 26ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 2K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 25ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 26ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed 3K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 25ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 29ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 29ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2871K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 28ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2871K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 26ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 27ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 29ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 26ms GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC freed &lt;1K, 48% free 2870K/5447K, external 1780K/1932K, paused 34ms </code></pre> <p>What seems to be wrong?</p> <p>EDIT @12:47 GMT:</p> <p>In fact it's slightly more complicated than this. My app UI is based on 2 parts. One is the brain of a screen, creating the views, handling user input, etc. The other is a <code>Fragment</code> if the device has android 3.0, otherwise it's an <code>Activity</code>.</p> <p>The GC happened on my Nexus One 2.3.3 device, so using the <code>Activity</code>. I don't have my Xoom with me to test the behaviour with a <code>Fragment</code>.</p> <p>I could post the source if required, but let me try to explain it :</p> <ul> <li><code>RootList</code> is the brain of the UI. It contains : <ul> <li>a <code>List&lt;&gt;</code> of items that will be placed in the <code>ListView</code>.</li> <li>a method that builds this list from a SQLite db</li> <li>a custom BaseAdapter that contains basically only the getView method pasted above</li> </ul></li> <li><code>RootListActivity</code> is a <code>ListActivity</code>, which: <ul> <li>uses an XML layout</li> <li>the layout has of course a listview with id <code>android.id.list</code></li> <li>the <code>Activity</code> callbacks are forwarded to the <code>RootList</code> class using an instance of RootList created when the activity is created (constructor, not <code>onCreate</code>)</li> <li>in the <code>onCreate</code>, I call <code>RootList</code>'s methods that will create the list of items, and set the list data to a new instance of my custom class derived from <code>BaseAdapter</code></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>EDIT on may 17th @ 9:36PM GMT:</p> <p>Here's the code of the Activity and the class that does the things. <a href="http://pastebin.com/EgHKRr4r">http://pastebin.com/EgHKRr4r</a></p>
 

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