random sluggish behaviour of the horizontalpager + smoothness question

[dor506]

Hey!

First of all, I wanna thank you for the awesome work you did with the horizontalpager.

I use it in my project and it works very well.
Im building a launcher, where each page is a linearlayout which holds another views (images, layouts, etc..)

however, the sliding/dragging isn't smooth enough like in Helix Launcher for example (In their launcher, the widgets on the
screen are being scrolled very smoothly)

what can I do in order to get better results according to the smoothness?

I also have another problem.
The pager is becoming sluggish for 2-3 seconds at random times.
what can be the cause of that problem?

thanks i advance!@
:D

[ysamlan]

I'd actually recommend using Google's ViewPager for any new development. It's an official Google library and can take advantage of newer OS features like hardware acceleration etc. in ways that would be difficult for me to attempt to replicate.

As far as the speed/sluggishness question: I've never experienced any sluggishness in the pager; check your code for things happening in the UI thread that shouldn't be, or turn on Strict Mode to look for accidental disk/network accesses you're making there (loading images from disk/http, etc.). Additionally, try to minimize your layouts -- replace multiply-nested LinearLayouts with a single RelativeLayout, etc. -- the same advice that applies to making ListView rows load smoothly, basically.