> This is a perfectly delightful solution for somebody with a background > in algorithms. Do you know of any Java code generator that creates > such structures?
Background in algorithms??? It's a Programming 101 problem -- anyone with a modicum of programming skill should be able to do it. It's no harder than writing the program to read lines from a file and write them to a database -- the only real difficulty is navigating through the maze of Java classes you need to do file access. On Oct 4, 11:08 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:44 AM, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote: > > It's dumb to use a database -- would take up much more space than the > > strings in arrays.xml, and be slower to access. > > You will note that the OP didn't put constraints on those criteria. > The OP put a constraint on memory usage. Given the stated constraints, > a database is a reasonable solution. > > > Of course, if there > > is no way to access a single element from arrays.xml ... > > Correct, other than by loading the whole array, which the OP is trying to > avoid. > > > ... one could, since this is a fixed database, use a "dope vector" > > into a file: Create a file with all the strings end-to-end, and > > another file that contains the start-end offsets of each string. > > Access the second file randomly (or have it loaded into an array) to > > get the offsets, then access the first file at those offsets to get > > the string. I don't know if you can somehow access a file in assets > > randomly but if so you could put these files there and name them .jpg > > or some such (to prevent compression). Otherwise you should copy them > > from assets to real files (taking care to name the string file .jpg or > > some such if it might be >1M). > > This is a perfectly delightful solution for somebody with a background > in algorithms. Do you know of any Java code generator that creates > such structures? > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training...At Your Office:http://commonsware.com/training -- 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
