assets and memory

[tmighty]

I am sorry for asking. I am sure I saw it mentioned somewhere, but I just can't find it anymore.

I would like to know how assets are treated. Are they loaded into memory completely at start up?

Any information about assets and memory would be great.

Thank you.

 

[Erel]

Asset files are packaged inside the APK file. They do not have any special effect on the memory usage.

 

[tmighty]

And when I extract an sqlite db from the asset using CopyDBFromAsset, is the database in memory, or just extracted to a temporary folder?

 

[Erel]

The database is copied to the storage card if such is available and if not to the internal storage (only if the database doesn't already exist). The database is not loaded into memory.