Because it will run in the UI thread and it will not be a good user experience! It will cause lag and not smooth behavior as i guess. The android developers site suggest developers to use asynctask in heavy and slow processes as network download! Have you tested bitmapfun code to see what i mean? I re-downloaded the code in order to be clear and without changes and even in this case when i don't add the auto-clear of the cases the code doesn't work for the scenario i described before!
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