Saving image from imageview to Drawable and vice versa

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I want to save my current ImageView image to Drawable and later on retrieve that image from the Drawable and render it to ImageView. Has anyone faced a similar problem?

This is my code so far to retrieve the image from Drawable but it's not working...

Drawable d = this.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.icon);
mImageView.setImageURI(Uri.parse(d));

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '16 at 15:04

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You are trying to set image by URI. Use this instead:

mImageView.setImageDrawable(d);

answered Mar 26 '16 at 15:04

Onur Çevik

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I will try it now and then will tell you :) – Rafael_Brett Mar 26 '16 at 16:10
Now second part is how to save my imageview to drawable ?? – Rafael_Brett Mar 26 '16 at 16:20
You can't do that. And why would you do that? Drawable folder is for manual use. – Onur Çevik Mar 26 '16 at 16:22
Basically i want to save my imageview image to drawable and then i want to take my image uri and pass it to android default cropping intent to perform cropping on it ... – Rafael_Brett Mar 26 '16 at 16:26
You cannot modify res/drawable at runtime. Here is what you can do: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6602417/get-the-uri-of-an-image-stored-in-drawable – Onur Çevik Mar 26 '16 at 16:28

Saving image from imageview to Drawable and vice versa

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