Image is flickering after ImageSource change

[MAtt5816]

Description

Hello, I've got a problem with MAUI on Android. I wrote an application to process digital data from an external USB device. I'm creating an ImageSource from a bytes array and binding it to an Image in XAML. New ImageSources are being created very quickly (c.a. 13 per second). Unfortunately, the image is still flickering. At Windows, problems don't occur - the image is displaying almost statically.

My MAUI version:

Problem on Android: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/assets/24682622/0821abd8-17c3-4663-a4cc-6379a8c5c29e

Correctly working on Windows:

My code: Page.xaml

<ContentPage.BindingContext>
    <viewModel:UsbTestViewModel />
</ContentPage.BindingContext>

<ScrollView>
    <VerticalStackLayout
        Padding="30,0"
        Spacing="25">
        <Border StrokeThickness="1" Stroke="Blue" HeightRequest="258" WidthRequest="258">
            <Image Source="{Binding ImageSource}" HeightRequest="256" WidthRequest="256" />
        </Border>
    </VerticalStackLayout>
</ScrollView>

UsbTestViewModel.cs

public ImageSource? ImageSource
{
    get => _imageSource;
    set
    {
        _imageSource = value;
        OnPropertyChanged(nameof(ImageSource));
    }
}

//...

// Timer 13 Hz
 private void ImageRenderTimerTick(object? sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     if (RenderTaskManager.RenderedImageSource != null)
     {
         ImageSource = RenderTaskManager.RenderedImageSource;
     }
 }

RenderTaskManager.cs

using SkiaSharp;
//...

 public static ImageSource CreateImageSourceFromByteArray(byte[] bytes)
  {
      var bitmap = new SKBitmap(width, height, SKColorType.Rgba8888, SKAlphaType.Opaque);
 
      ConvertBytesToPixelArray(bytes);
 
      unsafe
      {
          fixed (byte* p = _pixels)
          {
              bitmap.SetPixels((IntPtr)p);
          }
      }
 
      SKData encoded = bitmap.Encode(SKEncodedImageFormat.Png, 100);
      Stream stream = encoded.AsStream();
      return ImageSource.FromStream(() => stream);
  }

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create IDispatcherTimer with TimeSpan 77 milliseconds.

var myTimer = Application.Current?.Dispatcher.CreateTimer();
myTimer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(77);
timer.Tick += ImageRenderTimerTick;

2. Create ImageRenderTimerTick method where you will be creating ImageSource. You can create image from JPG file - problem still occur.

Link to public reproduction project repository

No response

Version with bug

Unknown/Other

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

Minium target Android 5.0 (API lvl 21)

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

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[MAtt5816]

ADDITIONAL INFO: A similar problem can be reproduced on Windows. Just (re)set the image source from the file in IDispatcherTimer and the image will flicker. It is the same bug as #6962.

namespace MauiApp1
{
    public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
    {
        IDispatcherTimer? timer;

        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            timer = App.Current?.Dispatcher.CreateTimer();
            if (timer != null)
            {
                timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(77);
                timer.Tick += SetImage;
                timer.Start();
            }
        }

        private void SetImage(object? sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            imageContent.Source = "dotnet_bot.png";
        }
    }
}

[Zhanglirong-Winnie]

According to the sample project in #6962 , we can reproduce this issue in 17.11.0 Preview 2.1 (8.0.60 & 8.0.40).

[schaudhary-extron]

Is this issue resolved because I still have this issue on Android. Image flickers when I add new image from stream. Any solun

[MAtt5816]

Is this issue resolved because I still have this issue on Android. Image flickers when I add new image from stream. Any solun

I don't know that is it fixed, but I suggest to use an SkiaSharp.Views.Maui.Controls SKCanvasView instead Image tag. Setting SKBitmap instead ImageSource don't causes image flicking.