Android - Create an array of drawables from db

Question

I have a table in the database which contains names of images: pic1, pic2, pic3 etc... When this table is retrieved from the db I need to create an array of drawbles from the names of the pics eg:

private Integer[] pics = {
  R.drawable.pic1, R.drawable.pic2,R.drawable.pic3}

The actuall images are in the drawable folder of the application.

How Can I achieve that?

10X!

Ted Hopp · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-11 21:40:50Z

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You can use Resources.getIdentifier():

Resources res = context.getResources();
int id = res.getIdentifier("pic1", "drawable", context.getPackageName());
assert id == R.drawable.pic1;

answered Jan 11, 2012 at 21:40

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