[android-developers] Re: parceling bitmaps pre and post honeycomb

2012-09-26 Thread RichardC
Not sure where you are getting your info from can you post a reference please? Bitmap.writeToParcel http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.html#writeToParcel(android.os.Parcel, int) Has no change notes against it and says it writes the pixels (from API level 1) On

[android-developers] Re: parceling bitmaps pre and post honeycomb

2012-09-26 Thread Jay Howard
Hmm. Good point. Some info I found online (forget where) suggested that Bitmap instances are fairly small since the pixel is stored externally on the native heap and the Bitmap instance only contains a reference to this externally allocated storage. I thought this would imply that, during

[android-developers] Re: parceling bitmaps pre and post honeycomb

2012-09-26 Thread RichardC
As Parcels can be used in IPC calls it would have to as the image memory would not be accessible to the other process. On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:30:40 PM UTC+1, Jay Howard wrote: Hmm. Good point. Some info I found online (forget where) suggested that Bitmap instances are fairly