Is An Immutable Bitmap Faster Then A Mutable One?

The Bitmap class has a method copy() with the signature below: public Bitmap copy(Bitmap.Config config, boolean isMutable) Is there a performance difference between a mutable and

Solution 1:

Romain Guy answered in the comments:

To answer the original question: no, there is no performance difference. There are some optimizations we could implement for mutable bitmaps though. Hopefully in a future release :)

Solution 2:

There is no performance difference. This will not affect the performance of your app. If you want to perform any opration like rotation etc then i think the bitmap should be mutable...

Solution 3:

On Application level, there is always a difference between immutable & mutable Bitmap resources.

You always get an immutable Bitmap from the resources. you need to convert them into mutable bitmap as per necessiti.

Bitmap Bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(....); Bitmap mutableBitmap = immutableBitmap.copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888, true);

So probably there must be a performance issue in this reference.