Question

I have a string that identifies a resource that i want to grab.

I know about the following:

public int getIdentifier(String name, String defType, String defPackage)

However i need to use it in an external class, and it won’t let me.

For example i have a string called “thefile” and i want to access R.raw.thefile

Any ideas? I’m stuck

Cheers

Answer 1

You could pass a Context to your external class. Example…

public Myclass {

    public void doSomething (Context context) {
        int resId = context.getResources().getIdentifier(...);

}

Then in your Activity…

MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
myClass.doSomething(this);