Doesn't the presence of this action on the MediaPlayer suggest that it will be returning large images? Or am I misunderstanding the "intention" of this action?
On Aug 20, 11:13 pm, "Romain Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bitmaps can be passed as extras in Intents. That's how Home can create > shortcuts with custom icons (for instance the photo of your contact.) > However, it is expensive to do so and you should really not pass large > bitmaps through Intents (Home uses 48x48 bitmaps.) > > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:57 PM, tomgibara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How does the following documentation for > > MediaPlayer.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE: > > > "Standard Intent action that can be sent to have the media application > > capture an image and return it. The image is returned as a Bitmap > > object in the extra field." > > > square with hackbod's informed commentary here: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/a0ae2e6455684245 > > > Quoting hackbod: > > > "Currently if you put a bitmap in an Intent, it will get copied to the > > other process. In fact, it is worse than that: it needs to first go > > through the system process before being sent to the target process, so > > it gets copied twice. This is definitely not something you want to do > > with anything but a small bitmap." > > > Has something changed which now makes passing Bitmaps via Bundles > > acceptable? > > -- > Romain Guywww.curious-creature.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
