The .apk is mmapped, and assets/resources are only accessed when needed. Also this -is- a zip file, so to open it we need to find and load the zip table of contents; this generally is fairly cheap to do, though.
What is "much" longer? How does that compare to other apps that are large (such as maps)? On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:35 AM, longhairedsi <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi Diane, thanks for the reply > > Could I have a little clarification please? On app startup would the > resources and assets be loaded into memory or only when they are > used? Something like this seems to be happening to my app. Since I > added the files I had on the sdcard to the assets folder the app takes > much longer to load on initial startup. If this is the case I think > copying the files to the sdcard on first run might be the way to go > (but much more work for monday ;) ) > > Thanks > Simon > > On Aug 28, 3:06 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Assets and resources are basically the same thing. They are all entries > in > > your zip files, resources have an associated table so you can retrieve > the > > file by resource identifier (which may select amongst different files > based > > on the configuration), while assets are just retrieved with a raw path in > > the zip. > > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM, longhairedsi > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > I have many ogg files in my app(around 1mb worth). Currently I'm > > > loading them from my sdcard from a folder that i manualy coppied > > > across. For distribution of my app where should i put the oggs? I > > > tried adding them as resources(R.) but it seemed to make my app take > > > an age to load, would this happen? Is assets the way to go? if so has > > > anyone got an example of loading an oog from assets? i can't get it to > > > work.. > > > > > Cheers > > > Si > > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
