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new media view stalls the UI when launched #10172
Description
Steps to reproduce
- Go to the hamburger menu
- Open the media view
Expected behaviour
- pictures should be visible instantly, at least those on the device, better at least all that are already known to the client since they have been loaded before
- "gathering pictures" or similar should be shown if pictures cannot be shown instantly, e.g. first start-up and no local pictures.
Actual behaviour
- The UI stalls for more than 15 seconds
Environment data
Android version: 12
Device model: Pixel 4a
Stock or customized system: stock
Nextcloud app version: 3.20
Nextcloud server version: 23.0.4
Reverse proxy: apache
Logs
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Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)
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aaronjlawson commentedon May 6, 2022
Confirmed same behavior with Pixel 5, NC v24
anarsoul commentedon Jun 16, 2022
Same here on Pixel 6, Nextcloud v24
AlvaroBrey commentedon Jun 27, 2022
Confirmed happening if a very large amount of pictures is available in the server
szaimen commentedon Jun 27, 2022
Yes, can confirm that this happens when you have a lot of media files on your server (in my case around 120k).
Based on Alvaro this happens because all media files get loaded in this view currently:
https://github.com/nextcloud/android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/owncloud/android/ui/fragment/GalleryFragment.java#L198
So a fix would be to only load new "pages" of new photos (with fixed size) as we're scrolling down.
AndyXheli commentedon Jul 6, 2022
Same issue Samsung S21+ G5 SM-G996U1. I have over 30G+ of Photos & Videos but when clicking on the Media tab view take a few seconds to load and when it loads it lags while browsing content and clicking on photos. The iOS team dose a really nice job at loading the files via the media tab. Is there a way to use their loading method ?
joshtrichards commentedon Dec 10, 2023
Related and potentially duplicates: #10882 & #10499
PhilLab commentedon Sep 24, 2026
Should be addressed in #17606 and fixed in the next NC app release.