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

You can Create Common Function for getting image drawable like this:

public static Drawable getDrawable(Context mContext, String name) {
        int resourceId = mContext.getResources().getIdentifier(name, "drawable", mContext.getPackageName());
        return mContext.getResources().getDrawable(resourceId);
    }