Comments on: Accessing Android Resources By Name at Runtime

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:13:41 +0000

Thank you so much for your help Steve!
You are my hero of the day

By: Janusz Leidgens

Janusz Leidgens — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:56:38 +0000

thanks the documentation sadly lacks an example

By: keckia

keckia — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:37:38 +0000

thanx, thats what I needed

By: Tim H

Tim H — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:55:04 +0000

Carlos,

You want this:
Log.i(TAG, “Found Button ID: ” + getResources().getIdentifier(“Button01″, “id”, “com.android.test”));
or
Log.i(TAG, “Found Button ID: ” + getResources().getIdentifier(“com.android.test:id/Button01″));

The code mentioned shows how to get a drawable, just replace drawable for another type in the resource file (id, drawable, layout, string, etc)

By: steven

steven — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:01:22 +0000

This code is really dated, I know there is a much cleaner way to do this now, but unfortunately I haven’t kept up with my Android development and can’t be to much help.

By: carlos

carlos — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:19:01 +0000

but with the example http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=17846, we can’t get a button id for example. Steven, it could be possible with your code example, but is it recommendable? please, help me with this little trouble. (you can send me a mail)

By: steven

steven — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:03:17 +0000

Ah, absolutely. This post is _very_ dated and I not recommend using my code example to anyone.

By: eisernWolf

eisernWolf — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:37:58 +0000

See Resources.getIdentifier. For example: http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=17846