Android: Image Download and Caching Updated

Finally, the Image Downloader has been updated. I concentrated mostly on the Out Of Memory issues. I converted all the bitmap references to soft references. It seems to be holding up on my side, so feel free to test and report anything you come accross ;)

Android: Image Download and Caching Upcoming Improvements

Hi there everyone,

I have received a lot of requests regarding the image caching class I made available in the beginning of the year. And the major issue for most of you was the memory management aspect of the class. So I decided to take the class and improve it memory management, especially when loading big images, or a lot of images.

Keep an eye out for the update ;)

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