Adding a bitmap to the drawable resources

Question

How can I add a Bitmap taken from the web (in the app i mean!) to the drawable resources? So i can access the Bitmap using R.drawable.bitmapName...

Answer 1

You can't modify that folder once your app is installed. In that case, you must copy the bitmap to a file and access it from there. Take a look at this other question:

Save bitmap to location

Answer 2

The resources are compiled at the apk building time, so you cannot change it in runtime. If you want to have some identifier you can consider creating a shared preference where you can put in relation the downloaded image file with some id. But it will take some effort from you to implement the functionality.