The mipmap folders are for placing your app/launcher icons (which are shown on the homescreen) in only. Any other drawable assets you use should be placed in the relevant drawable folders as before. According to this Google blogpost: It’s best practice to place your app icons in mipmap- folders (not the drawable- folders) because they … Read more
This is a simple circle as a drawable in Android. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <shape xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:shape=”oval”> <solid android:color=”#666666″/> <size android:width=”120dp” android:height=”120dp”/> </shape>
You have some options to handle this deprecation the right (and future proof) way, depending on which kind of drawable you are loading: A) drawables with theme attributes ContextCompat.getDrawable(getActivity(), R.drawable.name); You’ll obtain a styled Drawable as your Activity theme instructs. This is probably what you need. B) drawables without theme attributes ResourcesCompat.getDrawable(getResources(), R.drawable.name, null); You’ll … Read more
This piece of code helps. Bitmap icon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.icon_resource); Here a version where the image gets downloaded. String name = c.getString(str_url); URL url_value = new URL(name); ImageView profile = (ImageView)v.findViewById(R.id.vdo_icon); if (profile != null) { Bitmap mIcon1 = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url_value.openConnection().getInputStream()); profile.setImageBitmap(mIcon1); }