Thanks Dianne.

Is the shared memory size fixed? If yes, what is typically the size?

On May 26, 4:59 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Depends on how you define this.  It makes a copy of the bitmap.  The
> underlying Binder IPC mechanism uses shared memory to deliver data, but this
> isn't happening up at the Bitmap level so you have at least a couple copies
> of the data being made.
>
> In general, please avoid sending anything except icon size bitmaps across
> processes.
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:49 PM, George <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > When I pass a Bitmap using the Binder Remote service mechanism, does
> > the internal implementation of writeToParcel/createFromParcel of the
> > Bitmap class use shared memory?
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
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