I would like to store drawable resources' ID in the form of R.drawable.*
inside an array using an XML values file, and then retrieve the array in my activity.
Any ideas of how to achieve this?
I would like to store drawable resources' ID in the form of R.drawable.*
inside an array using an XML values file, and then retrieve the array in my activity.
Any ideas of how to achieve this?
You use a typed array in arrays.xml
file within your /res
folder that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<integer-array name="random_imgs">
<item>@drawable/car_01</item>
<item>@drawable/balloon_random_02</item>
<item>@drawable/dog_03</item>
</integer-array>
</resources>
Then in your activity, access them like so:
TypedArray imgs = getResources().obtainTypedArray(R.array.random_imgs);
// get resource ID by index
imgs.getResourceId(i, -1)
// or set you ImageView's resource to the id
mImgView1.setImageResource(imgs.getResourceId(i, -1));
// recycle the array
imgs.recycle();
In the value
folder create xml
file name it arrays.xml
add the data to it in this way
<integer-array name="your_array_name">
<item>@drawable/1</item>
<item>@drawable/2</item>
<item>@drawable/3</item>
<item>@drawable/4</item>
</integer-array>
Then obtain it to your code this way
private TypedArray img;
img = getResources().obtainTypedArray(R.array.your_array_name);
Then to use a Drawable
of these in the img
TypedArray
for example as an ImageView
background
use the following code
ImageView.setBackgroundResource(img.getResourceId(index, defaultValue));
where index
is the Drawable
index.
defaultValue
is a value you give if there is no item at this index
For more information about TypedArray
visit this link
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/TypedArray.html
You can use this to create an array of other resources, such as drawables. Note that the array is not required to be homogeneous, so you can create an array of mixed resource types, but you must be aware of what and where the data types are in the array.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<array name="icons">
<item>@drawable/home</item>
<item>@drawable/settings</item>
<item>@drawable/logout</item>
</array>
<array name="colors">
<item>#FFFF0000</item>
<item>#FF00FF00</item>
<item>#FF0000FF</item>
</array>
</resources>
And obtain the resources in your activity like this
Resources res = getResources();
TypedArray icons = res.obtainTypedArray(R.array.icons);
Drawable drawable = icons.getDrawable(0);
TypedArray colors = res.obtainTypedArray(R.array.colors);
int color = colors.getColor(0,0);
Enjoy!!!!!
You can't store arrays in R.drawable as far as I know.
What you can do is create an array in config.xml or strings.xml that maps a path to a drawable resource by using an alias resource.
See if this works, and please let me know if you need any additional help.