memory of drawables, is it better to have resources inside APK, outside APK or is it the same for memory?
I have an application that draws a lot of graphics and change them. Since I have many graphics, I thought of having the images outside the APK, downloaded from the internet as needed, and saved on the files application folder.
But I started to get outOfMemory exceptions.
The question is: Does android handle memory different if I load a graphic from APK than if I load it from 'disk'?
code using APK:
topView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.bg);
code if image is outside APK:
Drawable d = Drawable.createFromPath(pathName); topView.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
Thanks
Daniel
Asked by: Steven663 | Posted: 25-01-2022
Answer 1
No, internally they are handled the same. Most likely, you're leaking the images, or not cleaning them up as quickly as you could. Try calling Bitmap.recycle(); once you're done with an image, to force Android to clean it up.
Answer 2
At runtime, the memory footprint you're seeing should be about the same no matter which way you load it. Android will use a utility to byte-align resources internal to the apk which should improve loading times.
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