How to set an imageView's image from a string?

Question

I have a list of entries and some bitmap files in the res/drawable-mdpi directory. I\'m trying to load the image corresponding to the string value selected from the list by

Answer 1

No need to use getDrawable() you directly use the resource id like

String mDrawableName = "myimageName"; int resID = res.getIdentifier(mDrawableName , "drawable", getPackageName()); imgView.setImageResource(resID);