It's not an old way, it was added *after* drawable-hdpi, etc. It's useful to provide an image at a larger resolution that would normally be computed (for instance, on an mdpi device, Launcher might want the larger hdpi icon to display large app shortcuts.)
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tim <tdh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >On 15/02/2011 10:33, Gary Wang wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I found the following resource folders are existing in Honeycomb- > > version Borwser apk. > > > > mipmap-hdpi > > mipmap-mdpi > > > > The meaning of "mipmap" resource is not listed in its SDK's > > documentation. > > I also discovered this being used in the stock MMS (SMS) app. It appears > to be an old way of providing prescaled images for different resolutions, > before they added support for drawable-hdpi, drawable-mdpi and so on. There > is some information about it here: > http://source-android.frandroid.com/frameworks/base/graphics/java/android/graphics/drawable/MipmapDrawable.java > > > -- > 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 -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com -- 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
