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

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

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

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

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

[android] Android get image path from drawable as string

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