JavaScript: Decompress / inflate /unzip /ungzip strings [closed]
Take a look at this Stack Overflow question, the answers there contains references to multiple compressing engines implemented in javascript. Most of these are based on LZ77.
inflate
How to add same view to parent multiple times by inflating it only once
Did you actually check if inflate is slow? As far as I know, inflating view is very fast (almost as fast as creating views manually). It might be surprising for you to hear but inflate in fact does not parse the XMLs at all. XMLs for layout are parsed and pre-processed at compile time – … Read more
Inflate a view in a background thread
The LayoutInflater does not make any assumptions about what thread it runs on. And nothing is mentioned about this in its documentation. Also its code seams to be thread-agnostic. On the other hand, Views that are created by LayoutInflater might instantiate Handlers in their constructors. Well, they probably shouldn’t do that, but there is no … Read more
How can I decompress a gzip stream with zlib?
To decompress a gzip format file with zlib, call inflateInit2 with the windowBits parameter as 16+MAX_WBITS, like this: inflateInit2(&stream, 16+MAX_WBITS); If you don’t do this, zlib will complain about a bad stream format. By default, zlib creates streams with a zlib header, and on inflate does not recognise the different gzip header unless you tell … Read more