Local photos take too long to load

[thegrasshopper104]

In the Android app, local photos take about 5s to load, and only show a pixelated preview until then. In Google Photos, Files by Google or the camera app they load instantly. Not sure if this is an upstream issue or if Memories could do something about it.

Memories Android 1.6 from the Play Store. Device: Pixel 7a OS: Android 14, kernel 5.10.177-android13-4-00003-ga7208022a7ea-ab10815828

[s4n-cz]

I can confirm the issue on my older Pixel phone as well. Memories 1.6 from Play store

[steadfasterX]

@pulsejet I can confirm that using Memories v1.10.

actually the behavior is as follows:

with network connection:

1. take a photo with the camera
2. open Memories - photo is not shown (for me)
3. waiting some secs: photo is shown (with an indicator icon that it is not uploaded to nextcloud yet - which disappears once done)

without network connection:

1. take a photo with the camera
2. open Memories - photo is not shown
3. waiting long time: nothing happens
4. closing Memories and re-open: photo is shown

in both scenarios it works instantly (!) when closing Memories and re-open it. No matter if having a network connection or not.

I am not sure but this sounds like:

• the local folders might be not scanned frequently enough?
• and in the case of no network: no background scan at all (bc it might wait until there is network?! which would be useless for local pics ofc..)

[pulsejet]

@thegrasshopper104 any difference whatsoever with the latest versions?

without network connection:

As of right now, the behavior here is undefined (I'm surprised it works at all). https://github.com/pulsejet/memories/issues/854

[thegrasshopper104]

@thegrasshopper104 any difference whatsoever with the latest versions?

without network connection:

As of right now, the behavior here is undefined (I'm surprised it works at all). #854

Pretty much the same in 1.11. Here's a public screencast with my photos...which is maybe not the best idea but anyways (with network connection):

https://github.com/pulsejet/memories/assets/57704946/6a525cf7-7a54-401f-8cf4-cea993757837

[thegrasshopper104]

They are also pixelated in the timeline:

[pulsejet]

Are the images that are slow to load very high res? They're processed on demand and that could cause the slowdown.

As for the pixelated previews the APIs android provides to get these aren't great, unfortunately. They seem to have different behavior on different devices; this needs more investigation

[thegrasshopper104]

The resolution is 4624x3472 so I think pretty average