Loading a Fragment is taking more time in Android

Issue

I am trying to replace a fragment in Android and its taking almost 2-3 seconds to load the fragment into the UI. I am not sure what might be causing the issue because I don't do perform heavy threads in the onCreateView.

My fragment that is taking too much time to load has the following in its onCreateView.

Link : Code for my onCreateView

All I do in my onCreateView is play around with the visibility of certain layouts depending upon the data from DB. I don't think that it would take me so much time to load the page, it doesn't make sense to me.

What have I tried so far :

I haven't tried anything solid except the following which are some silly implementations of stupidity or I think so..

1. Tried to place a major chunk of code in an Async Task but as most of the code requires setVisibility(), it doesn't work in doInBackground(). And adding a runOnUIThread() is again same as not using a Async Task.

2. I doubted that the fragment manager might be taking some time to load the fragment into UI but when I replaced with another fragment with lesser UI components then it seemed to load fast.I also tried using getFragmentManager().executePendingTransactions();.

So thats what I have tried so far but also found out that option 2 is completely unnecessary because the log that I print before the return convertView; is taking 1-2 seconds to print. I am not sure what is going wrong or where its going wrong. Any help will be much appreciated.

Solution

You don't have to call super.onCreate() in onCreateView. Secondly, you are doing too much DB operations in oncreateView by instructions like dbHelper.getRelationGenderForEdit etc. You have to perform these operations in the backGroundThread. You can use Loaders or AsyncTasks to achieve this and pass these results to Fragment and use those values in onCreateView

Hope this helps.

Answered By - Mustansar Saeed