I've not played around with images much. I figured out what I needed, worked around any issues and moved on.
Today I am trying to understand a bit more how, at least conceptually, the images are dealt with in an app. I can understand why there are so many questions about using images in our apps!
I created an image that includes text but it doesn't look good so I want to replace it with an updated image. Using the same file name, I thought it would just update but it doesn't. So I decided to just remove the old version altogether.
However, after deleting the file, emptying Google trash, clearing Google cache, reloading the app, closing and re-opening the app...the image still appears if I set its name in the Google sheet.
I can replace the name in the sheet, refresh and the expected image shows. If I change the image name in the sheet back to the image that has been deleted, it will re-appear in the app.
NOTE: this is all being tested in the Editor emulator.
Obviously, the image file is being cached somewhere but where? How do we forcibly remove a deleted image so that it no longer appears anywhere in our apps?
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