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giozh
giozh

Reputation: 10068

aChartEngine performance and memory usage

I need to write some graph for an android application. I've try GraphView libraries but it doesn't satisfy me, there's still a lot of bug. The main on it's for zooming and scrolling: After zooming in i can't zoom out and scroll. I need a library easy to use, and lightweight because for my use case, i need to keep 3 graph in memory until the app is in foreground, and dynamic add values to graph during execution. AChartEngine could be ok for my purpose?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 449

Answers (1)

Sean
Sean

Reputation: 5256

Well, the answer is very dependent on what FITS you best and not what IS THE BEST. I've done some research about charts not long ago, I can share my thoughts. I found aFreeChart to fit best.

Aspects that I would consider (and remarks on aFreeChart):

  • License of code (aFreeChart is LGPL, not the typical apache)
  • Documentation (a lot of the derived work is based on the very well documented *j*FreeChart)
  • Popularity (aFreeChart not that popular, but jFreeChart is very popular and you can find a lot of Q&A for it online)
  • Is the Source editable for your needs (YES)
  • And of course, Basic features (Zoom & pan, huge amount of chart types)
  • Performance (I've found the library to be very efficient. you can check the demo I think it offers test of more than 1 chart at a time)

Upvotes: 2

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