Android :: Calling TextView.setText() Periodically Causes UI To Jerk
Sep 28, 2010
I'm coding an audio player where a thread updates the TextView representing the track's elapsed time, every 250 milliseconds. The display looks like this:
1:30/2:30<-----Progress Bar----->
TextView 1 is 1:30/ and TextView 2 is 2:30.
Both are set to wrap_content for width.
What happens is that on every 250 millisecond cycle, the thread checks the current time and updates TextView 1. For this brief moment, TextView 2 and the progress bar get pushed momentarily to the right by about 2-4 pixels. Then they come back to place until the same thing happens during the next cycle. I don't know what's happening. There are no trailing space characters, etc and everything should, theoretically, be working smoothly but it's not.
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CODE:...................
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Is there a way to avoid this allocation?
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CODE:....................
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REPRO:Compile + run the below samples. When the app starts, press the 'Start Timing' button. Use your thumb (or the mouse) to touch-drag the screen upwards (so you can see the RatingBar), then drag it back downwards (so the button is again completely on-screen). Tap the button (which now reads 'PauseTiming') again, and it'll jump down a bit. It should NOT be jumping/scrolling down, since there's no statement (that I can see) that tells it to scroll down. As near as I can tell, it's the setText that causes the scrolling ( when I comment those lines out, no scrolling occurs).WHAT I'M ASKING FOR:if I'm doing something dumb & you could point out what it is, I'd really appreciate it! I wonder if 'touch mode' might have something to do with this, since it does NOT appear to happen (in the emulator) when I use the mouse's scroll wheel to move the panel upwards (i.e.,instead of the simulated finger-dragging). I can't find a whole lot on touch-mode, and nothing specific on focus/selection in touch mode within a ScrollView if you can confirm that this error occurs for you too, that would be ok, too (since misery loves company.AHEM I mean, since it might help confirm that it's not just me MyTestApp.java package bug.android.scrollview;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.format.Time;
import android.view.Display;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class MyTestApp extends Activity {
public final static int STATE_TIMER_NOT_STARTED = 1;
public final static int STATE_TIMER_RUNNING = 2;
public final static int STATE_TIMER_PAUSED = 3;
private int mState;
Time t = new Time();
private Time data = new Time();
private Button btnStartStopResume;
private TextView lblSpacer;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.new_time_entry);
btnStartStopResume = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnStartStopResume);
// Set the button's size so that the other info will also be visible
Display display = ((WindowManager) getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE))
.getDefaultDisplay();
// This is such a hack, but the windowScroller doesn't appear to
// have a height at this point in the lifecycle (nor in 'onResume' :( )
btnStartStopResume.setHeight(display.getHeight() - 200);
lblSpacer = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.lblSpacer);
reset();
} public void doStartStopResume(View v) {
if (mState == MyTestApp.STATE_TIMER_NOT_STARTED) {
mState = MyTestApp.STATE_TIMER_RUNNING;
data.setToNow();
} else if (mState == MyTestApp.STATE_TIMER_RUNNING) {
mState = MyTestApp.STATE_TIMER_PAUSED;
String s = getString(R.string.add_scroll_down_to_add);
lblSpacer.setText(s);
} else if (mState == MyTestApp.STATE_TIMER_PAUSED) {
mState = MyTestApp.STATE_TIMER_RUNNING;
public void doReset(View v) {
}public void doNewRunClick(View v) {
public void doAddTiming(View v) {
public void reset() {
mState = STATE_TIMER_NOT_STARTED;
new_time_entry.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/windowScroller"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
> <RelativeLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
> <Button
android:id="@+id/btnStartStopResume"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dip"
android:text="Start Timing"
android:textSize="40dp"
android:height="290dp"
android:onClick="doStartStopResume" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lblSpacer"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/btnStartStopResume"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="@string/add_scroll_down_for_more" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lblTimeStartLabel"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/lblSpacer"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:clickable="true"
android:onClick="adjustStartTime"
android:text="Start of this run:"
android:textSize="8dp" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lblTimeStart"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/lblTimeStartLabel"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:clickable="true"
android:onClick="adjustStartTime"
android:text="--:--:-- --"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="26dp" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lblElapsedLabel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/lblSpacer"
android:layout_alignRight="@id/lblSpacer"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:text="Elapsed Time:"
android:textSize="8dp" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lblTimeElapsed"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/lblElapsedLabel"
android:layout_alignRight="@id/lblSpacer"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:textColor="#99ff66"
android:text="-- m -- sec"
android:textSize="26dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dip"/>
<CheckBox
android:id="@+id/chkNewRun"
android:onClick="doNewRunClick"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/lblTimeElapsed"
android:text="This is a new run of timings"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dip" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lblIntensity"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Intensity (1 = none 5 = max)"
android:layout_below="@id/chkNewRun" />
<RatingBar
android:id="@+id/rbIntensity"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/lblIntensity"
android:numStars="5"
android:rating="2"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dip" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lblNotes"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Notes:"
android:layout_below="@id/rbIntensity" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/txtNotes"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"
android:layout_below="@id/lblNotes"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dip" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/btnReset"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/txtNotes"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:layout_marginRight="10dip"
android:text="Reset"
android:onClick="doReset" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/btnOk"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/txtNotes"
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/btnReset"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:layout_marginRight="10dip"
android:text="Add Timing To List"
android:onClick="doAddTiming" />
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="app_name">Timer</string>
<string name="dlg_edit_timing_title">Edit A Timing</string>
<string name="add_scroll_down_for_more">< Scroll down for more options! ></string>
<string name="add_scroll_down_to_add">< Scroll down to save this timing! ></string>
<string name="start_timing">Start Timing
</string>
<string name="stop_timing">Pause Timing
</string>
<string name="resume_timing">Resume Timing
</string>
</resources>
AndroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="bug.android.scrollview"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0">
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
<activity android:name=".MyTestApp"
android:label="@string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="5" />
</manifest>
UPDATE 1: Adding if( btnStartStopResume.isInTouchMode() )
Toast.makeText(this, "TOUCH MODE", 2000);
elseToast.makeText(this, "NOT touch mode", 2000);
then setting breakpoints in the debugger confirms that the button is always in touch mode (regardless of whether I finger-drag the panel up/down, or mouse-wheel it up/down). So it's a combination of being in touch-mode AND finger-dragging the panel after the 2nd button-press (i.e, when the app is in 'stopped/paused timing' mode) that's causing the odd extra-timing in subsequent pauses.
UPDATE 2:
I just noticed that it's scrolling down to the EditText, and no further. It looks like when you move the panel down the EditText gets the selection, and after the click event the ScrollView scrolls back to the thing that has the selection. Seems to explain why the mouse-wheel approach doesn't have this problem (it moves the selection/focus back up to the button).
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