gallery performs slower than similar apps on other platforms

[John McAleely]

This bug is a bit hard to phrase, because this is not an apples-to-apples comparison, except at the highest level.

BQ report that customers are very unsatisfied with the performance of gallery. They are used to having a place which is a collection of photos on their phone.

If they use the same hardware, and keep those photos in the equivalent app on android, performance is much better.

I will attach in a comment a video demonstrating the problem

Whilst the initial condition is not quite the same, I think the key usability concern is the scroll performance, and the heavy use of the spinner in place of an actual thumbnail.

Obviously, there might be many reasons why 'things are slow', but it is a core comparison point between handsets to scroll a collection of the users photos, and this is a core function of gallery.

It seems android can deliver this experience with almost no use of placeholders. Can Ubuntu?

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

The mentioned video from the description.

Two handsets running ubuntu (which demonstrates it's not related to screen size, I guess) and a specimen android handset.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[SB (emehntehtt)]

This is very true, unfortunately Gallery is slow compared to it's Android counterparts, it seems to refresh thumbnails each time you open the application and lacks folder view that would make finding pictures easier. I used QuickPic on Android phone that was weaker than BQ Aquaris E4.5 (dual core vs quad core) and QuickPic comfortably showed around 1000 pictures in one of the folders on my SD card, first load was slower but not super slow, after it cached thumbnails next time it opened the folder fast and I was able to browse through thumbnails quickly. I tried copying the same folder to BQ and Gallery was awfully slow in showing all those pictures, it stuttered a lot, I had to remove the copied folder as it made Gallery almost unusable.