how to get an uri of an image resource in android

Question

I need to open an intent to view an image as follows:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); Uri uri = Uri.parse("@drawable/sample_1.jpg"); intent.setData(uri); startActivity(intent); 

The problem is that Uri uri = Uri.parse("@drawable/sample_1.jpg"); is incorrect.

Answer 1

The format is:

"android.resource://[package]/[res id]"

[package] is your package name

[res id] is value of the resource ID, e.g. R.drawable.sample_1

to stitch it together, use

Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://your.package.name/" + R.drawable.sample_1);

Answer 2

Here is a clean solution which fully leverages the android.net.Uri class via its Builder pattern, avoiding repeated composition and decomposition of the URI string, without relying on hard-coded strings or ad hoc ideas about URI syntax.

Resources resources = context.getResources(); Uri uri = new Uri.Builder()     .scheme(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)     .authority(resources.getResourcePackageName(resourceId))     .appendPath(resources.getResourceTypeName(resourceId))     .appendPath(resources.getResourceEntryName(resourceId))     .build(); 

Minimally more elegant with Kotlin:

fun Context.resourceUri(resourceId: Int): Uri = with(resources) {     Uri.Builder()         .scheme(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)         .authority(getResourcePackageName(resourceId))         .appendPath(getResourceTypeName(resourceId))         .appendPath(getResourceEntryName(resourceId))         .build() }