how to bind an image src to resource drawable image with Mvvmcross?

Question

I\'m trying to bind an image\'s src.

I have tried using MvxHttpImageView like this

Answer 1

I built a converter, which converts a drawable name to a Bitmap and bound the Bitmap to the ImageView.

The converter:

public class ImageNameToBitmapConverter : MvxValueConverter
{
    protected override Bitmap Convert(string value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {

        var topActivity = Mvx.Resolve();

        var bm = BitmapFactory.DecodeResource(topActivity.Activity.Resources, GetResourceId(value, "drawable", topActivity));

        return bm;
    }

    private static int GetResourceId(string variableName, string resourceName, IMvxAndroidCurrentTopActivity topActivity)
    {
        try
        {
            return topActivity.Activity.Resources.GetIdentifier(variableName, resourceName, topActivity.Activity.PackageName);
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            return -1;
        }
    }
}

The XML view:

The Icon property I'm binding is a string like: "icon_name" where I put the image icon_name.png in the Android project's Resources/drawable