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

A simple way to getting resource ID from string. Here resourceName is the name of resource ImageView in drawable folder which is included in XML file as well.

int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(resourceName, "id", getPackageName());
ImageView im = (ImageView) findViewById(resID);
Context context = im.getContext();
int id = context.getResources().getIdentifier(resourceName, "drawable",
context.getPackageName());
im.setImageResource(id);

Answer 2

In your res/layout/my_image_layout.xml

<LinearLayout ...>
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/row_0_col_7"
      ...>
    </ImageView>
</LinearLayout>

To grab that ImageView by its @+id value, inside your java code do this:

String row = "0";
String column= "7";
String tileID = "row_" + (row) + "_col_" + (column);
ImageView image = (ImageView) activity.findViewById(activity.getResources()
                .getIdentifier(tileID, "id", activity.getPackageName()));

/*Bottom code changes that ImageView to a different image. "blank" (R.mipmap.blank) is the name of an image I have in my drawable folder. */
image.setImageResource(R.mipmap.blank);  

Answer 3

You can use this function to get resource ID.

public static int getResourceId(String pVariableName, String pResourcename, String pPackageName) 
{
    try {
        return getResources().getIdentifier(pVariableName, pResourcename, pPackageName);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return -1;
    } 
}

So if you want to get for drawable call function like this

getResourceId("myIcon", "drawable", getPackageName());

and for string you can call it like this

getResourceId("myAppName", "string", getPackageName());

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Answer 4

You can use Resources.getIdentifier(), although you need to use the format for your string as you use it in your XML files, i.e. package:drawable/icon.

Answer 5

The Kotlin approach

inline fun <reified T: Class<R.drawable>> T.getId(resourceName: String): Int {
            return try {
                val idField = getDeclaredField (resourceName)
                idField.getInt(idField)
            } catch (e:Exception) {
                e.printStackTrace()
                -1
            }
        }

Usage:

val resId = R.drawable::class.java.getId("icon")

Answer 6

For getting Drawable id from String resource name I am using this code:

private int getResId(String resName) {
    int defId = -1;
    try {
        Field f = R.drawable.class.getDeclaredField(resName);
        Field def = R.drawable.class.getDeclaredField("transparent_flag");
        defId = def.getInt(null);
        return f.getInt(null);
    } catch (NoSuchFieldException | IllegalAccessException e) {
        return defId;
    }
}