Handle drawables - by the name

I already know how to handle drawables like this:

final int[] imgSizeIds = new int[]{
  R.drawable.zero,R.drawable.one,R.drawable.two,
开发者_高级运维  ...
};

and

setImageResource(imgSizeIds [ size ] );

in android. But what If I have an Array of Strings that is populated like this:

String[] names = new String[]{"oliver", "peter", "mike"};

and I would like to use Image oliver.jpg when The ROW Oliver is going to be handled.

Something like:

setImageResource(R.drawable. (AND HERE COMES "oliver") );

So the result will be:

setImageResource(R.drawable.oliver);

Two Arrays would not be the big problem but I also do not know how to put a string into the integer Array of drawables.. I cannot do something like:

final int[10] imgSizeIds; 
String stringy = "oliver"; 
int[0] = "R.drawable." + stringy;

So that the 1st item in that array would be set to R.drawable.oliver

try this

int resid = getResources.getIdentifier("oliver" , "drawable", getPackageName());
setImageResource(resid);

setImageResource(R.drawable. (AND HERE COMES "oliver") ); 

So the result will be: setImageResource(R.drawable.oliver);

this will probably not happen.Because when you tell android to take a string specified in a String variable,it would take it as - "oliver" and put it like R.drawable."oliver" or even though,if you would try putting it like - setImageResource("R.drawable."+ (AND HERE COMES "oliver") ) it will take it as a String like "R.drawable.oliver" which is after all a String variable and not appropriate to be passed in setImageResource() method.

Be sure that R.drawable.imagename gives you int, not a string.

See if below code helps-

String[] imgNames = new String[]{ "oliver", "apple", "car"};

and use this to use names from name string array-

ImageView imgvw = (ImageView) findViewById(getResources().getIdentifier(imgNames[index],"drawable",getPackageName()));

where index is position of item in string name array.