Switch Images in ANDROID.

Hi all ……..

Ofter we have trouble with loading continous images in ANDROID from our application directory.
The reason is that all resources have a unique resource ID which we need to get to load these resources.
The following example shows how to get these unique identifier from the “path” of the resource.
For example Here I have seven images with names sample_0.png, sample_1.png to sample_7.png.
By using
imgID = getResources().getIdentifier(“sample_”+num, “drawable”, “com.switchImages”);
I convert the path to it’s identifier.
Note that all these images need to be in “drawable” folder.
Even if your folder name is “drawable-hdpi” also then give only “drawable” and third parameter the package name.Just copy and paste the following code to your java file.
Make sure that you have all the images in the resource.

package com.switchImages;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class Switch extends Activity {
    ImageView img;
    Button preview;
    int num = 0;
    public int imgID = 0;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        preview = (Button)findViewById(R.id.Prev);

        try
             {
                 imgID = getResources().getIdentifier("sample_"+num, "drawable", "com.switchImages");
                         img.setImageResource(imgID);
             }catch(Exception e){
                        Toast.makeText(Switch.this,e.getMessage() , Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
             }

             preview.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
                                    @Override
                                    public void onClick(View v) {
                                                 imgID = getID();
                                                switchImage(imgID);
                                    }
                        });
    }

    public void switchImage(int ID){
             try
                         {
                                     ID = getResources().getIdentifier("sample_"+num, "drawable", "com.switchImages");
                                     img.setImageResource(ID);
                         }catch(Exception e){
                                    Toast.makeText(Switch.this,e.getMessage() , Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                         }
    }

    public int getID(){
             int imgID = 0;
             num++;
             if(num > 7) num = 0;
             try
             {
                        imgID = getResources().getIdentifier("sample_"+num, "drawable", "com.switchImages");
             }catch(Exception e){
                        Toast.makeText(Switch.this,e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
             }
             return imgID;
    }
}

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