Android Question handling numerous images

[Greenletuce]

Hey everybody, I am designing a simple app : In the activity, have different "buttons" which are made with a panel, an imageview and a label. Each "button" is about a different subject when the user clicks on the panel it loads another activity with a text page on it.

The problem is : for each subject or button, I have an image view to handle, and I have a lot of subjects to work on, like hundreds of them. And I need to find a better solution because I can't just implement these images localy on the app, It is going to take a lot of space on the devices.

My question is : is there a way of implementing all these images and in what direction should I go to in order to get this to work ? It may sound stupid but I have been thinking about setting a remote SQL database, but I don't know if it is correct to do in my case.

Thanks.

 

[Erel]

The numbers are important here. What is the number of images? What is the images average size?

 

[Greenletuce]

The numbers are important here. What is the number of images? What is the images average size?

The number of images : I don't really know, between 400 and 450. What is the images average size ? The images we'll be from google images so their size may vary, I think I will not be using images above 1280 * 720. I hope it's sufficiently accurate, sorry for not being more precise.

 

[Erel]

Downloading the images from a remote server is a good solution. It can be a database or a simple http server or ftp server.

 

[Greenletuce]

Downloading the images from a remote server is a good solution. It can be a database or a simple http server or ftp server.

Thanks @Erel for the reply, may I ask you what kind of remote server would be the easiest and/or quickest to set ? I'll be looking on the forum trying to see how I can work one out. Thank you for your patience and assistance.

 

[Erel]

It really depends on many factors in your app requirements and also depends on your experience.

 

[Greenletuce]

It really depends on many factors in your app requirements and also depends on your experience.

Well, I know my way around SQL databases, but I saw you wrote "simple http server or ftp server" so I thought I would make a mistake in choosing a remote database, that's why I posted this thread, just to be sure I'm not doing something wrong.