It has nothing to do with Drawables, it's just a buffering issue with loading large bitmaps over slow connections. Local images are NOT problematic at all, and BitmapFactory.decodeResource() is certainly not better than getResources().getDrawable() since the latter pretty much uses the former :)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Cheryl Sedota <cherylsed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Romain, > > Can you please give details on the exact problem with the current 1.0 > SDK? Should we avoid Drawables completely in favor of setting resource > id's or bitmap objects? Or is the problem specific to a use case like > loading remote images (via URL)? Based on the comment above that > BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources()...) behaves better than > getResources().getDrawable() I am assuming local images are > problematic as well? > > Thanks!! > Cheryl > > On Dec 15, 4:46 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: >> It wasn't fixed in 1.0r2. We cannot put fixes in the SDK if they are >> not available on the phones. Also, the bug is internal, it's not on >> the external tracker. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Cheryl Sedota <cherylsed...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Romain, >> >> > What is the bug number for this? Was it fixed in the 1.0 r2 SDK? >> >> > - Cheryl >> >> > On Nov 12, 7:25 am, blindfold <seeingwithso...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Interesting. In case this Android bug/feature not only applies to >> >> input streams, this might also explain why I no longer had memory >> >> related crashes on the G1 after recently switching to using >> >> BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources() instead of getResources >> >> ().getDrawable() to retrieve background images from my resources. >> >> >> Regards >> >> >> On Nov 12, 5:30 am, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: >> >> >> > This is a known bug. Here is a workaround: >> >> >> > in = new BufferedInputStream(new >> >> > URL(getUrl(size)).openStream(), >> >> > IO_BUFFER_SIZE); >> >> >> > final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new >> >> > ByteArrayOutputStream(); >> >> > out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, >> >> > IO_BUFFER_SIZE); >> >> > copy(in, out); >> >> > out.flush(); >> >> >> > final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray(); >> >> > bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, >> >> > data.length); >> >> -- >> Romain Guy >> Android framework engineer >> romain...@android.com >> >> 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 > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
