What limits are there on the number of Android resources?

Question

One of our apps has several thousand small data files that we\'re currently packaging as assets. It would help our code if we could package them as raw resources. I have tried t

Answer 1

There's no explicit documentation on this that I know of either, however one can make reasonable assumptions that the Android devs have designed Android appropriately given their recommendations. They recommend that you put strings and drawables into resources with the potential to supply different ones for different locales, screen sizes, screen densities and orientations. The sheer number of these possibilities suggests to me that they expect apps to include thousands of resources and you'll be just fine supplying a few thousand small raw resources.