Re: [android-developers] widget with custom bitmaps

2010-10-01 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
The issue here is marshalling bitmap data from your widget process into the launcher process. If you load the bitmap in your process, and specify as a drawable in RemoteViews, then its actual bytes will need to be marshalled into the launcher process. This is not efficient. It's better to specify y

[android-developers] widget with custom bitmaps

2010-10-01 Thread siliconeagle
I am writing a clock widget that uses customised bitmaps (so the widget loads the bitmap from the sdcard) Just have a couple of questions regarding how updates work: 1. if i want to display seconds on the clock widget will the widget load the bitmaps off the disk every second or can they be cache