Question

In my app I use an array of drawable ids.
It’s an XML file saved at res/values/arrays.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <array name="icons">
        <item>@drawable/home</item>
        <item>@drawable/settings</item>
        <item>@drawable/logout</item>
    </array>
</resources>

Then I retrive it using this code:

Resources res = getResources();
TypedArray icons = res.obtainTypedArray(R.array.icons);
Drawable drawable = icons.getDrawable(0);

But I get an error saying: array “cannot be resolved or is not a field”.

So How do I get an array of ints that contains the ids from the xml file?

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

My code was ok. In my res dir there was an image with a capital letter in it’s name! and that’s Invalid file name which must contain only [a-z0-9_.] 🙂 So that’s why there was an error in the R class. Thanks you guys!