Is it possible to add images programmatically?

I have a web service where I read various information from. One of these pieces of information is the name of an image. I have all the images stored locally in the drawables folder. What I have done right now is I read the string of the image I need from the web service. I want to use this开发者_运维问答 string name and insert the image with the same string name from my drawable folder. Is this possible to do?

Is it possible to do the following somehow?

//Setup the image
        ImageView spotIvIcon = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.spot_selected_image);
        String temp = "R.drawable."+spotImage;
        spotIvIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.beer);

What I do with the temp string. Is it possible to convert this string into the int I need? I have the beer in there just to test something out. Thanks

So I found out how to do this. If anyone wanted to know how it's done use the following code:

int path = getResources().getIdentifier(spotImage, "drawable", "com.androidpeople.tab");
        spotIvIcon.setImageResource(path);

Where:

• spotImage is the name of your string
• drawable is the type you want
• com.androidpeople.tab is your package name

Works like a charm now.

you could just use the assets directory to store these images, and then load them using something like BitmapFactory.decodeStream(assetManager.open(imAnAssetName));

the asset directory it's here to be used for things you don't want to be managed (or that can't be managed) by the resource manager.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/AssetManager.html .