In addition, even though the code that handles multiple states is pretty tight, it wasn't meant to handle several thousands of states and changing state can take quite a bit of time.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Dianne Hackborn<[email protected]> wrote: > The current absolute limit is 32,767 resources per type. > > However... uh, you should really re-think this. All of the drawable > containers (level list, state list, etc) load ALL of their images up-front. > Ghod god please please don't load 5,000 images into the system process. > Please. > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM, markh23 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a notification icon in the status bar with thousands (5000+) of >> states, and each state has a different corresponding icon. Right now >> I'm using a <level-list> xml file to switch between all these >> different images. >> >> It seems to be working right now (it takes a little longer to install/ >> uninstall from the emulator however), but does someone see any >> problems with this that I'm not catching? Is it possible to have too >> many items in the res/drawable folder? Will there be a huge >> performance hit by having an icon with so many states? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --Mark >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
