On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:22 AM, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote: > Yeah, the stuff in "values" is "precompiled" into an internal XML > representation and isn't compressed. XML files that aren't > precompiled should compress quite efficiently. >
That's not true, the stuff in values is parsed by aapt into a binary resource table and the original XML structure is gone. Files in raw are left entirely as-is and not modified at all. XML files in other directories are pre-compiled into a binary XML format that is much more efficient to parse and does things like combine duplicate strings, and this binary format will also be compressed in the zip. (Older versions of aapt didn't compress those files, but anything newer should and the result is compatible with older versions of the platform.) -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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
