Android, getting resource ID from string?

Question

I need to pass a resource ID to a method in one of my classes. It needs to use both the id that the reference points to and also it needs the string. How should I best achie

Answer 1

Simple method to get resource ID:

public int getDrawableName(Context ctx,String str){
    return ctx.getResources().getIdentifier(str,"drawable",ctx.getPackageName());
}