ListView very slow when scrolling (using ViewHolder/recycling)

UPDATE 2011-08-29 If I remove the image in the NodePickup, the lagginess is gone.

The view has a hard time figuring how the layout should be rendered. The xml you posted don't help much. If you remove the ImageView then the LinearLayout02 will take all the width of the parent. But having the imageView with standar dimentions and the layout to the right will fill_parent confuses the view a lot. Requests the size of the imageView again to "push the margins to the right" (kind of). Take a look at my suggestions below

Tip1

use the LinearLayout property weight. Make the imageView fill_parent and the LinearLayout too (for the width) and play with the weight properties. Do that also for the vertical layout with the TextViews. The best Solution whould be to put a fixed size to the height of the TextViews thought. Also consider to change the top view to RelativeLayout. Make the image with standar dimentions , AlignParentLeft and put the LinearLayout02 toRightOf imageView. You will relief the onMeasure of the ViewGroup a lot.

Tip2

It seems like when the text changes height the whole view need to be reinflated.A common technic to avoid that it to make list Item fixed in height. So the listview can reuse the recycled views without reinflating.

Tip3

Give your LinearLayout02 a fixed height of 64dp or Fill_Parent since you don't have any left space, but the Layout don't know that and try to rearrange it self every time since the text is also Wrap_content.

Also you said that if you remove the ImageView everything is fast again.If the above don't have any effect can you please try this? Since you know that imageView size is fixed.

Extend your imageView and override requestLayout() method.

public class MyImageView extends ImageView {

public PImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);

}

public PImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);

}

public PImageView(Context context) {
    super(context);

}

@Override
    public void requestLayout() {
        /*
         * Do nothing here
         */
    }
}

Now include the MyImageView widget to your XML like that.

<com.package_name.MyImageView 
        android:id="@+id/ImageView01" 
        android:layout_width="40dip" 
        android:layout_height="40dip"
        android:src="@drawable/arrow_up_green"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent">
 </com.package_name.MyImageView >

After optimizing my getView() method to use a holder and to reuse convertView if it's not null, my listview was still pretty laggy. Then, I've tried

listView.setScrollingCacheEnabled(false);

and it solved it at once.

Hope this helps someone.

I just discovered this and I wanna share it with you guys.

I tried ALL the solutions provided but nothing worked. What was causing the problem is the length of the text I am feeding one of my TextView views because i'm using

mTextView.SetText(theLongString)

in my adapter in my getView method. Now that I shrinked my String, the listview is VERY smooth :)