Getting resources of another Application

Question

Assume I\'ve got 2 Application A and B.

I want to access resources (drawables, images, strings) of an B application from A application. How would I do that?

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Answer 1

Peter's answer above is great, but I'd like to elaborate a little more...

When you control appA and appB and want to get a drawable from appB, while in appA, then do the following:

1. Get the identifier of the drawable when in appB (for example, R.drawable.iconInAppB)

2. Then, in appA

   Resources res = context.getPackageManager().getResourcesForApplication("com.example.appB");
   
       Drawable d = res.getDrawable(integer);
   //integer was what appB assigned to R.drawable.iconInAppB
   

*Note: The integer id assigned to R.drawable.iconInAppB will change over time so don't rely on hardcoding. I save the key-value pairs (String resourceName, int resourceId) in a database in appB and access them using a content provider.