How to get another application's resource

ForD · by **ForD** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:44 am

Assuming I know the resource id, does anyone know how I could retrieve the resource of another application stored on the phone? Note the the constants that come on the ResolveInfo, ActivityInfo, and ApplicationInfo classes aren't working for what I need.

ForD · by **ForD** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:31 am

anybody have any ideas? I just tried to resources object as well, which didn't work.

ForD · by **ForD** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:19 am

Well, I ended up figuraing out how to do this, here's the code for posterity:

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Intent mainIntent = new Intent(Intent.MAIN_ACTION, null);
 
mainIntent.addCategory(Intent.LAUNCHER_CATEGORY);
 
List<ResolveInfo> apps = ZoomGrid.context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(mainIntent, 0);
 
Resources r = ZoomGrid.pm.getResourcesForApplication(apps.get(1).activityInfo.applicationInfo);
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change the 1 in apps.get(1) to a different number to change the app. Then use the properties of the r (Resources) object to get the resource by id.

How to get another application's resource

How to get another application's resource

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