Way to Accessing Resources and Resource Ids of other Apps

Question

After some research and practice, I have observed that we can access Resources of other Apps using PackageManager like

Resources resources = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager().getResourcesForApplication(appPackageName);

but merely accessing Resources is not sufficient. We need Ids for every Resource component like Drawables, layouts,Strings etc etc... to access them from Resources.

I have searched in SO and struggled a lot myself about how to get Resource Ids of other Apps but didn't get proper solution. I have seen in SO, some people suggested to use methods like

resources.getIdentifier(String name, String defType, String defPackage);
resources.getValue(String name, TypedValue outValue, boolean resolveRefs);
resources.getValue(int id, TypedValue outValue, boolean resolveRefs);

but don't have Idea how to use them.

I need to access Resources(Drawables, Strings, Layouts...) of other Apps.

Help me in this concern. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

thank you all and sorry for my english...

Answer 1

Thanks for your question, I can able to access via following code. It is working fine..

String lAppPkg = "com.example.sharedlogos";
resources = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager()
                            .getResourcesForApplication(lAppPkg);
int lID = resources.getIdentifier( mID, "drawable",
                            lAppPkg);
mImage.setBackground(resources.getDrawable(lID));