Hi Everyone. I'm just wondering if using generics in a class's definition is a good idea in Android. What I'm inclined to do is define some class that stores and operates on some numeric types. I want to be able to instantiate an integer, long, float, or double version of this class. So I want the int'ified version of this object to only store an int, instead of casting the ints from the constructor to a long; and same thing for float/double too. This way I minimize the amount of allocated space per number. So anyway this is perfectly achievable with generics... but I always get nervous thinking about generics and numeric types since every time I pass an int argument to a method that takes a Number as an argument, it'll be turned into an Integer, and then that Integer will have to be cleaned up later.
So is it a good idea to use generics for primitive numeric types in Android or will it cause ugly unnecessary garbage collection? Thanks, Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
