Download many images without halting the app to a grind

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Hi all!

I’ve successfully built an app that is mainly for music and movie library purposes. It all works quite well, i scan in the library, which is very fast, after that i download images from LastFM for all the artists and albums, finally i store them using cordova file. The problem is that in case someone has a large library, it takes a long time and the performance of the mobile device drops quite a lot. Is there a way to transfer the images in a low priority thread? Or some other method?

Thanks for any advice!

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I found this too but limiting the concurrent image downloads to 4 by implementing a “queue” eased this.

Work through the full list by calling a routine that removes the first 4 entries from the list and calls a promise for each to download, add the returned promise to an array and then using $q.all(promisesarray).then() to call the same routine recursively until none are left.

Sorry unable to provide actual code as it belongs to my employer.

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Thanks for replying, your reply gave me some direction. I’ll try that!