Does an unused import declaration eat memory, in Java?

Question

Does an unused import like so - import android.widget.RelativeLayout; eat memory? Just want to know about how much or just is it valuable? Maybe this is stu

Answer 1

No, compiler removes them after compilation. But two issue you may face

1. code clutter
2. If you import some classes from jar and later removed jar but not imports, then you may get compile time error