Android: R.drawable not showing my image?

Question

In my android 2.2 app, I've added my image to the res/drawable-mdpi folder. However, I cannot seem to access it using R.drawable.. As far as I know, there isn't any additional configuration I need to do - any help?

Never mind. I figured it out. For some reason, it was importing android.R — Andy Hin, May 01 '11 at 02:51
Can you share what was the issue? This will help for others. So try to put what was error. — Pankaj Kumar, May 01 '11 at 04:25

score 38 · Accepted Answer · answered May 03 '11 at 18:25

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I figured this out. The issue was that the project was importing android.R instead of using the generated R file - if you encounter this problem, check your imports to make sure the correct package/file is being imported.

answered May 03 '11 at 18:25

Andy Hin

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 11:29

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You need to use a fully qualified name when importing the generated R file. Check your import statements.

Take the following package statement:

package me.rhys.example;

Then the generated R file can be imported using:

import me.rhys.example.R;

answered Feb 12 '14 at 11:29

Rhys

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After adding the drawable resource you want to use and rebuilding the application, this is really all you need. – Machado May 02 '23 at 22:29

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '12 at 00:37

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I had the same problem for a different reason. In my case I had illegal characters in the image file name and hadn't noticed the console message complaining about it.

Once I'd renamed icon-1.png to icon_1.png all was well.

answered Oct 05 '12 at 00:37

faraquet99

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 02 '20 at 23:43

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First click Build -> Rebuild Project so you get help directly from Gradle.
Then please check if your file-based resource name must contain only lowercase a-z, 0-9, or underscore.

answered Jul 02 '20 at 23:43

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 28 '21 at 14:17

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Props to Andy Hin This issue can happen if "android.R" was imported. Just check your imports and delete the "android.R" line. It worked for me.

answered Mar 28 '21 at 14:17

Diraph

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 27 '12 at 21:27

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Have Faced the same sort of error, instead of importing contents (pictures) properly, I copied to drawable-hdpi folder, which in turn wasn't generating R Constant ID, you have to import it, rather than just dropping it there.

answered Jan 27 '12 at 21:27

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score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Mar 10 '13 at 17:22

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If you would like to import a file, for example an image file then you need to go to the res/drawable-XXXX and right click on the folder and then select "import" and in the setup select general files and go to the folder where the images are and select the files that you want to import... Netbeans does this automatically but the eclipse lack this feature

edited Mar 10 '13 at 17:22

rhughes

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answered Mar 10 '13 at 16:52

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 02 '20 at 11:14

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With me it worked after the following steps

Configure -> SDK Manager -> Android SDK -> SDK Tools -> Checked NDK -> Apply

Restart Project

answered Jul 02 '20 at 11:14

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Android: R.drawable not showing my image?

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