Re: [android-developers] Re: Do we need images for all versions HDPI , MDPI , LDPI

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Francisco Marzoa <fmmarzoa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also another point is the image to be scaled I itself. Some images may lost
> important details when scaled down while others won't do it.
>
> Photographs should scale down very will in most cases, but images generated
> by 2D design sometimes won't. For example, if you draw an straight line too
> thin that it's important for the design, it may disappear when scaling down.
> The same may occur with thin strokes. In these cases the unique approach is
> to export the image as a bitmap several times at different resolutions.

Excellent point. Kirill Grouchnikov had a great blog post on a related
topic, the old "why aren't we using vector icons everywhere" issue:

http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-icons.html

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