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From: Kostya Vasilyev
To: android-developers@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [android-developers] images
On 03/09/2012 07:36 PM, Knutsford Software wrote:
Is there a reasonable amount of space on there then? I was thinking there
was more in the database I am new to this which must be obvious
As I already wrote, databases, by default, are stored in the same old
internal memory, so I don't see any benefit to using a database to store the
actual image bits. Besides the space issue, manipilating files is just
easier than shuffling byte[] arrays.
The size of internal storage varies greatly, but as far as I can tell, users
tend to get nervious if an app uses more than, say, 5-10-15 megabytes.
The external storage comes in two shapes: a real physical memory card, whose
size can also vary greatly, and pseudo-external storage, such as that on
tablets, Samsung's Galaxy phones including the Nexus (and maybe others).
The API is the same for both types of external memory.
As far external storage goes, consider using Context#getExternalCacheDir so
that it integrates with Android's application management features.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal
Thanks that has helped a lot
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