Can you use transparent images, super-imposed to refactor your 5000 images to (for example) 5 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 35 rather than 5 * 10 * 10 * 10 = 5000?
On Sep 3, 11:48 am, markh23 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
