Thanks for reply. I should have stated that app will be offline and not relying on online storage so cloud is not really appropriate as the same screen will allow the user to grab a picture via the camera and then store the image. I think I'll have a play with both media storage and database, and see what works best..
On May 5, 8:00 pm, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote: > It really depends on the amount of space your images would take up. If > it runs into less than 100KB, you can put them in the drawable folder. > but, anything beyond than that is not a good practice. Your final > apk's size will be huge. > > the best way is to keep your images somewhere in the cloud, and access > them through the app. > > Thanks and Regards, > Kumar Bibek > > On May 5, 8:45 pm, JimmyHoffa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 0 vote down star > > > Hi all, > > > I'm just looking for some insight into what would be the best way for > > me to store images as part of my app. > > > I have an activity that represents a 'Job' which has a couple of > > edittext's and underneath was planning on using the Gallery component > > to show images relevant to this job. > > > The job data is stored in a database (on the sdcard) so was also > > thinking of creating a table to store 'JobImages' and having each > > image stored as a byte array. > > > But I'm not sure if it would be better to store the images directly on > > sdcard under a folder structure specific to my application and the > > job. E.g. using the job ID number as a folder name. > > > Depending on which method I use will greatly determine the code that > > goes into an 'adapter' that allows me to bind to the gallery component > > so before I begin I was wondering if anyone has had the same design > > problem and what option they chose. > > > Thanks, > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
