is it possible to create resource ids programatically?

On Oct 1, 2:27 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> your drawables as a resource id.
>
> Updating every second is kind of questionable, it will eat through the
> battery pretty fast.
>
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>
> 01.10.2010 16:21 пользователь "siliconeagle" <[email protected]> написал:
>
> 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 cached
> somehow so it doesn't reload off the disk each time. or If it does
> reload a bitmap each second, would this use a lot of power?
>
> 2. If i load the customised number bitmaps into a static array and
> then pass them as bitmaps to the widget would this use less power than
> just loading off the SD card?
>
> best regards,
> rob
>
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