Android, getting resource ID from string?

Question

I need to pass a resource ID to a method in one of my classes. It needs to use both the id that the reference points to and also it needs the string. How should I best achie

Answer 1

How to get an application resource id from the resource name is quite a common and well answered question.

How to get a native Android resource id from the resource name is less well answered. Here's my solution to get an Android drawable resource by resource name:

public static Drawable getAndroidDrawable(String pDrawableName){
    int resourceId=Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier(pDrawableName, "drawable", "android");
    if(resourceId==0){
        return null;
    } else {
        return Resources.getSystem().getDrawable(resourceId);
    }
}

The method can be modified to access other types of resources.