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Hakeem
Hakeem

Reputation: 95

Managing icon PNG files in Android App

I am developing an application which creates menu with each menu item having its own icon. I have too many PNG files for each menu item. In future i will be updating menu items from WebService which will add to these png files.

What is the most efficient way to store this data(png files). I don't want to keep it in drawable folder as I can't update contents of drawable folder after i have shipped my app. If i am storing it on External Memory, How do i achieve that? Where exactly should i copy these png files and use them as resources in my code.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 317

Answers (2)

Bostwickenator
Bostwickenator

Reputation: 380

You can write to private space assigned to your app using this http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#openFileOutput(java.lang.String, int) method and read back with it's sibling.

InputStream is = your input stream
OutputStream os = mContext.openFileOutput("image.png",Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

Utils.copyStream(is,os);  //Your own steam copy here

is.close;
os.close;

Upvotes: 0

Code Droid
Code Droid

Reputation: 10472

Store them as BLOBs in sqLite.

Upvotes: 1

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