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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Finishing the User Interface Loading the First Page

kris Moore
kris Moore
1,752 Points
Posted by kris Moore
kris Moore
1,752 Points

depreciated methods.

Android Studio says: ".getDrawable(page.getImageId())" and .getDrawable() also has a strike through it, will this affect the code?

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

"Deprecated" doesn't mean "removed (yet)" so it can still be used. If you want to future-proof your code you change it to:

ContextCompat.getDrawable(getActivity(), R.drawable.name)
Zachary Blasczyk
Zachary Blasczyk
723 Points

What is meant by 

R.drawable.name

Do you mean that we should type

Drawable mdDrawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(page.getImageId(), R.drawable.name);
mImageView.setImageDrawable(mdDrawable);

Please help.

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

It's the resource id for the Drawable image, which is usually in the form of R.drawable.etc but can be an int variable or result from a method. In the Interactive Story app it should be the image id of the page, i.e., page.getImageId().