Question

I already know how to handle drawables like this:

final int[] imgSizeIds = new int[]{
  R.drawable.zero,R.drawable.one,R.drawable.two,
  ...
};

and

setImageResource(imgSizeIds [ size ] );

in android. But what If I have an Array of Strings that is populated like this:

String[] names = new String[]{"oliver", "peter", "mike"};

and I would like to use Image oliver.jpg when The ROW Oliver is going to be handled.

Something like:

setImageResource(R.drawable. (AND HERE COMES "oliver") );

So the result will be:

setImageResource(R.drawable.oliver);

Two Arrays would not be the big problem but I also do not know how to put a string into the integer Array of drawables.. I cannot do something like:

final int[10] imgSizeIds; 
String stringy = "oliver"; 
int[0] = "R.drawable." + stringy;

So that the 1st item in that array would be set to R.drawable.oliver

Answer 1

try this

int resid = getResources.getIdentifier("oliver" , "drawable", getPackageName());
setImageResource(resid);