Path of Image in drawable

Question

I am using a library iTextPDF.jar and the following is a line of code from my program

Image imageHeader = Image.getInstance(path);

How to specify the path of an Image that I have stored in drawable?

Thanking you in advance, Sreekanth

Answer 1

If you are having an image in drawable folder we use

R.drawable.imagefile 

to refer it

Answer 2

you can get the image id via runtime but i didnt find any solution to get the path you can use this

int id = getResources().getIdentifier("name_of_resource", "id", getPackageName());

This gives the id of the image which can be used at any place check this for example http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=17846

Answer 3

First you can convert the image into a byte array

Drawable d;
Bitmap bitmap = ((BitmapDrawable)d).getBitmap();
ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, stream);
byte[] bitmapdata = stream.toByteArray();

Then you can pass this byte[] to the get

Image imageHeader = Image.getInstance(bitmapdata);

getInstance method also accepts byte [] instead of Path of Image in drawable.

Hope this helps!!!