Slow To Load Messages at Launch

[Rov3r]

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Affected app version

1.0.1

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 14

Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

How did you install the app?

F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open the app
2. App launches but nothing displayed in Messages view

Expected behavior

Should be near instantaneous to load messages

Actual behavior

The app launches and won’t load conversation list for 5-8 seconds on average.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Additional information

This is installed on someone else’s phone. They installed it today as their carrier’s texting app is going away, and I recommended they get a messaging app from F-Droid. Upon the first launch, all messages were loaded in—no problem. However they complained to me that it takes a long time to be able to interact with messages compared to the carrier’s messaging app. I checked and confirmed it does take much longer to launch the Fossify Messages.

[Aga-C]

1. Does it load slowly conversation list or a particular conversation? 
2. If it loads conversation list slowly - do you know how many conversations are on the phone?
3. If it loads a conversation slowly - do you know how many messages are in it?

[Rov3r]

1. The whole conversation list
2. 44,000+
3. N/A

[jayb-g]

It is definitely slower than the AOSP messages app, and slower then the quicksms app.

Actual behavior

The app launches and won’t load conversation list for 5-8 seconds on average.

This almost always happens, even if you have messages received in the notification, when you open the messages app it takes a while(1 to 5sec or more) to show new messages in the list.

Also when you open a new unread message and close it, it doesn't immediately change its status from unread to read. That takes a while too.

Overall it feels very sluggish to use as compared to other SMS apps.

Edit: I have only 1044 conversations(not sure how many messages inside them) and still have the same problem.

[Rov3r]

Yeah, unfortunately the person I downloaded this app for has still been complaining about the slow load times. It’s to the point that I gave up and said just go back to using the Samsung app. I really hope this does get fixed in the future. When I migrate to Android it would be nice to know there’s FOSS for messaging that is just as good as any default app.

[jayb-g]

Overall it feels very sluggish to use as compared to other SMS apps.

And this slow-ness isn't limited to the fossify Messages app. It (seemingly)delays loading of new items in the fossify Gallery app too.

I'm not using any other fossify apps but seems like something common in both(and other) apps is causing this sluggish behavior.

[naveensingh]

How many files do you have? You might want to subscribe to the following issues:

• https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/54
• https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/284

[jayb-g]

How many files do you have?

Select all shows 15800.

Edit: Same behavior on another device with around 2600 files. Although the delay might be shorter.

[joshhansen]

I have 44,851 messages in 1,045 conversations from about 10 years of messaging history. Many operations in Fossify are quite slow:

1. Initial loading of main conversation list
2. Initial loading of an individual conversation
3. Setting a conversation to "Unread"
4. Conversation being marked as read after viewing it then returning to the conversations list
5. Subsequent re-loading of a conversation that has a new message added to it

The slowness is intolerable, I will have to switch to another app unfortunately

App version 1.1.5, Android 14, Samsung Galaxy S22

The name of this issue is too narrow, should probably be changed to: UI is unacceptably slow with high message count

[naveensingh]

The main conversation list is still slow, but chat messages should load faster now in v1.5.0.

[salfter]

The main conversation list is still slow, but chat messages should load faster now in v1.5.0.

I just checked after having to wait for some conversations to load up. I'm on that version, and it's still pretty slow. It wasn't like this until maybe the past week or so, which suggests a regression has been introduced.

[naveensingh]

I just checked after having to wait for some conversations to load up. I'm on that version, and it's still pretty slow. It wasn't like this until maybe the past week or so, which suggests a regression has been introduced.

• How many messages are there in that conversation?
• How many total conversations do you have?

Please also share your device info. Related: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Messages/issues/574