More than two minutes to start the app

[mihaelmilea]

I have many, many pictures and it takes more than two minutes to start the app, meanwhile one core CPU is used 100%. The pictures are stored on the SD card. With the SD card removed the app starts imediately.

[nfsprodriver]

So we may need some asyncronously loading in some places of the program.

[Flohack74]

Plus, when I open the gallery app after some days, not all pictures are loaded. Specifically it seems that it loads only up to the last 24hrs. Close again, open, it works.

[TronFortyTwo]

Yes, currently ALL the media in the device are loaded (not fully, but I think each one is at least checked) at launch, this means a long load time for large collection. This is one of the issues can be solved when we will implement collections/folder media organization.

[mihaelmilea]

Could we just get a as-of-now quick fix, let's say at start it loads only the first n number of pictures and then it loads the rest of them in the background? I am facing every day this issue... Sometimes I want to show somebody a picture and, if somehow meanwhile the gallery closed, I have to wait the two minutes for it to start... I am not complaining, I am soooo thankfull for all your work, thank you! :)

[sverzegnassi]

@TronFortyTwo Do you think that switching to MediaScanner2 as a backend for gallery-app could help?
If memory serves me well, it provides a media database that is sinchronized in background, any time a new picture or video is saved on disk. That might help by erasing the time spent during the initial consistency check. Could it be suitable?

[TronFortyTwo]

Maybe. Surely update a library is always a good idea, so I will try to do that asap, hoping it helps here.

[mihaelmilea]

@Flohack74 changed the ping interval in the push server to 5 minutes and then I also did the changes to /etc/xdg/ubuntu-push-client/config.json sugested in ubports/ubuntu-touch#415 and then I restarted the phone for those changes to take effect.

Now my gallery starts instantly!!! As if there was something wrong with my phone, I restarted the phone and checked it again: gallery starts instantly!!! For more than a year it would take two minutes to start the gallery.

I don't know if what I wrote in the first paragraph is related. But I thought to mention it here. If this stays like this then my issue is solved.

[Flohack74]

Huh? This cannot be, somehow. push service has nothing to do with gallery. Please observe :) In any case, gallery should have a lazy loading, for only the picutres on screen plus a few outside to support faster scrolling experience.

[mihaelmilea]

@Flohack74 you are right, I realized it loads fast now because for some reason it does not detect the SD card where I have all the pictures (would that have anything to do with the modifications of /etc/xdg/ubuntu-push-client/config.json ?). Sorry for the confusion!

[Flohack74]

No, this cannot affect the SD card also. Maybe try to re-insert it, some contact problem?

BR