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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1537

Static reference to images file in my Database

Let's say I want to create a database with static references to images included in my Android App. If I use the drawable folder, the ids are dynamic and I can't use a static reference to them.

Since I want to use one column of my Database as a resource for suggestion icons in my App, using drawables files is not simple...

If I want to do it, in which folder should I put my .png files? And in the database, which url should I save for each entry?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Budius
Budius

Reputation: 39846

it's actually pretty simple to use in the normal drawable folders and write in the DB as string/text.

the Resources object have a few methods to help you deal with it:

getIdentifier(...) use this to get the integer ID of the drawable, for example:

context.getResources().getIdentifier("icon", "drawable", context.getPackageName());

and getResourceEntryName(...) use this to get the String name of the drawable, for example:

context.getResourceEntryName(R.drawable.icon);

Upvotes: 1

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