Thanks for the help guys. I appreciate the time you took, Dianne, to write out that response.
And Zod, I just wanted to make a (large) counter for the status bar. Nothing fancy. Sorry about the delay. On Aug 27, 3:58 pm, Zod <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi mark23, > > I'm just curious. What do you want to do which requires sooo > incredible amount of icon states ? > > I completely aggree with Dianne about the "totally unreasonable thing > to do" part. > Wasting memory in a desktop application is a bad thing, however nobody > may notice a leak of a few tens of megabytes ram. However ram is a > pretty precious resource in an embedded environment like a mobile > phone, and it should not be wasted carelessly. > > Bye, > Zsolt > > On Aug 27, 6:15 am, 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 havetoo > >manyitems in the res/drawable folder? Will there be a huge > > performance hit by having an icon with somanystates? > > > Thanks. > > > --Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
