how to get the source of ImageView in order to change it?

Question

I know that changing the ImageView resource is not big deal just using myImageView.setImageResource(mynewImageDrawable)

but what I want to do is to chec

Answer 1

There is no getDrawableId function so you'll need to do something like set a tag for the ImageView when you change its drawable. For instance, set the drawable id as a tag for the ImageView so you could just get the drawable id from the tag.

How to do that?

I'd say 90% of the time, your views wont have any tag on them, so the easiest way is to assume your tag is the only tag:

myImageView.setTag(R.drawable.currentImage);    //When you change the drawable
int drawableId = (Integer)myImageView.getTag(); //When you fetch the drawable id

What if I already have a tag on my view

Android views can host multiple tags at the same time, as long as they have a unique identifier. You'd need to create a unique id resource and add it as the first argument to the setTag method call. Leaving the code like this:

myImageView.setTag(R.id.myTagId, R.drawable.currentImage); //Set
int drawableId = (Integer)myImageView.getTag(R.id.myTagId);