I have basic Android application created with Android Studio with single image loaded in ImageView
like this:
ImageView iv = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView);
iv.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_CROP);
iv.setImageResource(R.drawable.g01);
Image size is 1280x853 pix
, nothing huge. When I store the image in drawable
folder runtime memory consumed by app is 24.35 MB vs 11.85 MB when image is stored in drawable-nodpi
folder. Tested on xhdpi
device with resolution of 1280x720 pix
.
In my real life app, difference is even greater 75 MB vs 25 MB.
Why the difference? I thought that drawable
and drawable-nodpi
folders are basically the same and serve the same purpose?