Drawable advantage over bitmap for memory in android

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Error removing Bitmaps[Android]

Is there any advantage of using Drawable over Bitmap in A

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In my understanding, Bitmaps are typically better for performance if you don't need to do much image manipulation. However, I have run into memory leaks when I don't manually recycle them. My solution was to write a class to help me manage my images that provides an easy way to recycle all my bitmaps at certain points in my application. It also provides an easy way to reuse already loaded resources (including Drawables).