From a949569e009d1fb6f40b7821fa151dc639756433 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vakrilov <alexander.vakrilov@telerik.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:40:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Load BitmapDrawable with getDrawable to make use of Android
 internal caching

---
 image-source/image-source-native.android.ts | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/image-source/image-source-native.android.ts b/image-source/image-source-native.android.ts
index dd0cbbfac..53919ed2a 100644
--- a/image-source/image-source-native.android.ts
+++ b/image-source/image-source-native.android.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ export function fromResource(name: string) {
     if (res) {
         var identifier: number = res.getIdentifier(name, 'drawable', androidApp.packageName);
         if (0 < identifier) {
-            return android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, identifier);
+            // Load BitmapDrawable with getDrawable to make use of Android internal caching
+            var bitmapDrawable = <android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable>res.getDrawable(identifier);
+            if (bitmapDrawable && bitmapDrawable.getBitmap) {
+                return bitmapDrawable.getBitmap();
+            }
         }
     }