Android drawables, 9 patch images

Question

I have a file apple.9.png in my drawables folder and am trying to call this inside of my onDraw method.

Drawable d = getResources().getDrawable(getContext(), android.support.v4.R.drawable.apple);

in order to call canvas.drawPicture()

However, the word apple is red and it is telling me cannot resolve symbol 'apple'

Why cant it recognize the apple.9.png in the drawables folder?

I have also tried

Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), android.support.v4.R.drawable.apple);

Answer 1

the word apple is red and it is telling me cannot resolve symbol 'apple'

This is because the image apple is not part of android support library and since you are specifying it to find image in support library, it gives cannot resolve symbol

To fix this use:

Drawable d = getResources().getDrawable(getContext(), R.drawable.apple);

This will refer to your drawable folder, and it will find image of apple.

For creating scaled Bitmap, refer link

Hope it helps!