Windows phone 8.1 Implement virtualization for Custom variable sized Gridview

Question

I have implemented custom itempanel for gridview to support variable item height using this link posted by JerryNixon.My Custom panel supports 3 different sized template(dep

Answer 1

Finally we implemented virtualized custom grdiview by referring to the code posted in this link. Code given in the link is for virtualizing horizontal gridview. I changed the code a bit to change it to vertical gridview. Many thanks to the person who posted the code. It helped a lot

Answer 2

To overcome out of memory exception just reduce the pixel width of the images and you will save the memory so that more items can be loaded in the page.

<Image Stretch="Uniform" Width="150" Height="170">
                        <Image.Source>
                            <BitmapImage UriSource="{Binding MainImage}" DecodePixelWidth="400"/>
                        </Image.Source>
                    </Image>

The above code does the trick.