Question

I already tried the following but without success.
My project is using API level 4.

from stackoverflow

from android documentation

Here is my code:

webView.loadUrl("android.resource://com.package.name.from.manifest/" + R.drawable.pic); 

And I’ve got the following error in the WebView widget:

Web page not available

The Web page at
android.resource://com.package.name.from.manifest/2130837504 might be
temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web
address.

Am I missing something? Should I create html page which will include a link to the resource as < img …> tag?

Answer 1

In the end I have done the following:

I had an array of file name extensions of each of the image in resources.
And then I could call the following method with the resource ID and it’s file name extension.

protected String getResourceURL(int resourceId, String extension) {
    String resName = getResources().getResourceName(resourceId);
    int index = resName.indexOf("/");
    resName = resName.substring(0, index);
    index = resName.indexOf(":");
    String resType = resName.substring(index + 1);

    StringBuilder link = new StringBuilder(128);
    link.append("file:///android_res/");
    link.append(resType).append("/");
    link.append(getResources().getResourceEntryName(resourceId));
    link.append(".").append(extension);
    return link.toString();
}