Android get image path from drawable as string

Question

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

User · Answer

First check whether the file exists in SDCard. If the file doesnot exists in SDcard then you can set image using setImageResource() methodand passing default image from drawable folder

Sample Code

File imageFile = new File(absolutepathOfImage);//absolutepathOfImage is absolute path of image including its name
        if(!imageFile.exists()){//file doesnot exist in SDCard

        imageview.setImageResource(R.drawable.defaultImage);//set default image from drawable folder
        }

User · Answer

based on the some of above replies i improvised it a bit  create this method and call it by passing your resource  Reusable Method  public String getURLForResource  int resourceId          use BuildConfig APPLICATION ID instead of R class getPackage   getName   if both are not same     return Uri parse  android resource     R class getPackage   getName        resourceId  toString        Sample call  getURLForResource R drawable personIcon    complete example of loading image  String imageUrl   getURLForResource R drawable personIcon      Load image  Glide with patientProfileImageView getContext               load imageUrl             into patientProfileImageView     you can move the function getURLForResource to a Util file and make it static so it can be reused

User · Answer

If you are planning to get the image from its path  it s better to use Assets instead of trying to figure out the path of the drawable folder       InputStream stream   getAssets   open  image png        Drawable d   Drawable createFromStream stream  null

User · Answer

I think you cannot get it as String but you can get it as int by get resource id   int resId   this getResources   getIdentifier  imageNameHere    drawable   this getPackageName

User · Answer

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

[android] Android get image path from drawable as string

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