Question

Okay so here my issue, I
have a list of items that when a user clicks one, it gets added to a shared preference file which looks like this: <map>
<string name="Some Name">R.drawable.somename</string>
</map>

Using this code:

prefEdit.putString(title[position],imgString[position]);                        
                prefEdit.commit();

What I want to do is place R.drawable.somename from the xml file into a grid view as an image in place of:

        private Integer[] mThumbIds = {
            R.drawable.archery, R.drawable.aviation,
            R.drawable.archery, R.drawable.aviation,
            R.drawable.archery, R.drawable.aviation,
            R.drawable.archery, R.drawable.aviation,
            R.drawable.archery, R.drawable.aviation
    };

Currently the user can select up to 130 different items that they can add to the grid view.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

It would be better to just have the xml store the base name, (“somename”, “archery”, “aviation”). Then you could get the id doing this.

int id = getResources().getIdentifier("archery", "drawable", getPackageName());

In this example if your drawable was R.drawable.archery then id would = R.drawable.archery. You could store the strings in the xml and get the ids this way.