String wrote: > On Jul 28, 12:22 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> android.R.drawable.ic_menu_preferences. >> I suggested that once on this list, and a member of the core Android >> team pointed out that this is a really bad idea, since those resource >> values might change, or the underlying graphics might change. > > Funny, I got the idea from the Dev Guide, where it's given as a Best > Practice: > http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html#menuapx
That *is* interesting. It was some of those very images that I was commenting about. Since the guidelines came out after my discussion on the topic, the guidelines should be correct. > Admittedly, that's just for a subset of the images (menu and status > bar icons), but hopefully that implies that these resources at least > aren't going to be renamed. Beyond what's on that list, I agree, it's > probably better to make a copy. Agreed. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, $35/Year --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

