Android get image path from drawable as string

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Android-Droid picture Android-Droid · Dec 22, 2011 · Viewed 101k times · Source

Is there any way that I can get the image path from drawable folder in android as String. I need this because I implement my own viewflow where I'm showing the images by using their path on sd card, but I want to show a default image when there is no image to show.

Any ideas how to do that?

Answer

karan picture karan · May 30, 2014

These all are ways:

String imageUri = "drawable://" + R.drawable.image;

Other ways I tested

Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.segf4ult.test/" + R.drawable.icon);
Uri otherPath = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.segf4ult.test/drawable/icon");

String path = path.toString();
String path = otherPath .toString();

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