Question

I have a image called(my_image.png) in my Drawable-mdpi folder.

my android application interacts with a webservice. It might send back “my_image”. My android application should load up this image.

I am using Monodroid and I tried this

   int abc = Resources.GetIdentifier("my_image","drawable",null);

Yet the result is always "0". When it should be(from the resource file)

        // aapt resource value: 0x7f020000
        public const int my_image = 2130837504;

Looking around and the android way seems to be similar

int i = this.getResources().getIdentifier("txt_asecondtext", "strings", this.getPackageName());

I tried passing in the package name instead of null but that did nothing.

Answer 1

The problem is twofold:

1. You need to provide a package name in the Resources.GetIdentifier() call, and not use null.
2. You need to use the correct package name.

The simple way to ensure you get the correct package name is to use the Android.Content.Context.PackageName property:

int id = Resources.GetIdentifier ("my_image", "drawable", PackageName);

If you don’t want to/can’t use Context.PackageName, then look at the build output, in e.g. the obj\Debug\android\AndroidManifest.xml file, and use the value of the /manifest/@package attribute value. For example, AndroidManifest.xml may contain:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
        android:versionCode="1"
        android:versionName="1.0"
        package="MonoAndroidApplication2.MonoAndroidApplication2">
    <!-- ... -->
</manifest>

Thus, you could instead use:

int id = Resources.GetIdentifier ("my_image", "drawable", 
        "MonoAndroidApplication2.MonoAndroidApplication2");

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