Load Activity and/or Application Logo Programmatically from Manifest

Question

I am trying to load the logo associated with the current activity and/or its parent application from the definition in the manifest. This technique has already worked succes

Answer 1

If you take a look at the code in android.app.ContextImpl.ApplicationPackageManager (here), you will find that eventually it uses the method

public Drawable getDrawable(String packageName,int resid,ApplicationInfo appInfo)

(lines 2131 to 2173 in 2.3).

There are several Log.w calls there that you can use to follow what is going on through adb (i.e., Failure retrieving resources for...)