How to load AnimationDrawable from xml file

Question

I have some custom class BitmapStorage, not attached to any View or whatever - an utility one. And I have born_animation.xml file which contains with

Answer 1

Yay, I found the cause! :)

It was my bad: I didn't had the proper format of my animation.xml file:

• I didn't use android: namespace in attributes (for some reason i decided it's not required)
• I deleted "duration" attribute in tags

After I fixed these things res.getDrawable() started to return a correct AnimationDrawable instance.

Had to look more precisely at Resources.NotFoundException and it's getCause() to find out what's wrong :)