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Android

Posted by Jan Luts
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Jan Luts
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 2,984 Points

Wallpaper manager type raw error?

When trying to set a wallpaper I keep getting the error above ("expecting resource of type raw"). I was able to fill an imageView field with the image on the click of a button so I probably need to load in the image in a different way or use a different command to set the wallpaper. The code I'm using is the following:

WallpaperManager myWallpaperManager = WallpaperManager.getInstance(getApplicationContext());
try {
     myWallpaperManager.setResource(R.drawable.image5);
} catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
}

I have followed the basic android course here and read up on some other tutorials though I'm unable to figure out why this is happening. Does anyone have an idea about what I'm doing wrong or what I'm forgetting? Thanks in advance!!

Ratik Sharma
Ratik Sharma
32,885 Points

What are you trying to achieve here? Are you trying to take the image in the ImageView and set it as the wallpaper for the device?