What about the performance of the listview with large number of items?

[jaydeepw]

Calling

TextDrawable drawable = TextDrawable.builder()
.buildRect("A", Color.RED);

continuously in any AdapterView will exhaust the app out of memory.
How will this be handeled?

[amulyakhare]

According to my understanding, creating new drawable instances in the AdapterView will not result in the application going out-of-memory. Since ListView will recycle views, when the setImageDrawable(drawable) is called, it will clear the reference to the old drawable (which will eventually get garbage collected). Can you elaborate, why do you think the application memory will be exhausted?

[jaydeepw]

True. The app will not run out of memory but it will require the app to increase the frequency of GC calls.
So, I guess, we can say it is optimized for listview or RecyclerView.