Setting bitmap as window background

Question

I want to set a BitmapDrawable as background for a window of a particular activity. But I recently read that drawables are not easily collected by the Garbage Collector. So is this a bad practice?

Answer 1

I've not heard that. People do it all the time. I have backdrops in almost ALL of my apps. I even have apps where the backdrop changes throughout the lifecycle. Never had a problem with it.