Why doesn't Android use more enums?

Question

I\'ve started to really like using C# and Java enums in my code for several reasons:

• They are much more type-safe than integers, strings, or sets of boolean fl

Answer 1

A colleague of mine performed a small test regarding this situation. He auto generated a class and an enum with the same amount of "enums". I believe he generated 30000 entries.

The results were:

• .class for the class was roughly 1200KB
• .class for the enum was roughly 800KB

Hope this helps someone.