Recyclerview painfully slow to load cached images form Picasso

Question

I have implemented a RecyclerView that contains mainly images which is loading in through Picasso. My problem is that as soon as I scroll down or up the view, the placeholde

Answer 1

I can't verify the correctness of this solution, but I was facing this problem as well and approached it following this idea:

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder viewHolder, final int i) {

...

    if(mImageView.getDrawable() == null)
         Picasso.with(context)
            .load(path)
            .error(errorResId)
            .tag(tag)
            .into(mImageView);
...  
}

It is intended to forbid Picasso from loading anything unless the ImageView has nothing to display.