android中Drawable的mutate方法作用

摘录android的官方注释

/**
 * Make this drawable mutable. This operation cannot be reversed. A mutable
 * drawable is guaranteed to not share its state with any other drawable.
 * This is especially useful when you need to modify properties of drawables
 * loaded from resources. By default, all drawables instances loaded from
 * the same resource share a common state; if you modify the state of one
 * instance, all the other instances will receive the same modification.
 *
 * Calling this method on a mutable Drawable will have no effect.
 *
 * @return This drawable.
 * @see ConstantState
 * @see #getConstantState()
 */
public Drawable mutate() {
    return this;
}

上面的注释已经说的很明白了：让这个draw变成一个可变的drawable。什么是可变的drawable呢？

android中从同一个资源文件中加载出来的drawable会共享状态，如果你加载出来多个drawable，当改变了其中一个的状态时，其他drawable的状态也会相应改变。

如果把这个drawable变为mutate drawable后，这个drawable就不会与其他drawable共享状态。

特别注意，这个mutate操作是不可逆转的。