Android: access a drawable from a specific -dpi folder?

Question

I have two drawable folders: drawable-mdpi and drawable-ldpi

I want to keep this structure (i.e. I don't' want to move my images to /assets), so that Android will automatically pick the appropriate artwork depending on the device density, however, on occasion I need to access the larger drawable version on the smaller device.

Is there a way to access the drawable-ldpi folder from code? I thought the following might be the answer, but it did not work:

    Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.example.test/res/drawable-ldpi/icon");
    imageview.setImageURI(path); //assume imageview is already initialized etc.

I get a java.io.FileNotFoundException (no such file or directory) warning (it doesn't crash, but it just doesn't load either).

Thanks so much for your help!

Answer 1

probably not much help but there is Resources.getDrawableForDensity() but this is for API 15 :-(