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

Answer 1

You don't need to call Bitmap.reycle(). This will be done for you in its finalizer. Doing it in the finalizer means the allocation will be delayed until finalizers run, so when possible directly calling recycle() can help with memory management.