Reference a drawable

Question

I am trying to cast a drawable in my code but I get this error

An instance of type android.view.View' can not be of type android.graphics.drawable.Drawable

Here is my code:

mydrawable = (Drawable) findViewById(R.drawable.mydrawable);

findViewById it means this is a View. It can't be casted as Drawable. — AA Shakil, May 03 '18 at 13:13
Because this not the way to get a drawable, check [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/29146895/5914654) — vincrichaud, May 03 '18 at 13:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 03 '18 at 13:33

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Return type of findViewById() is a View which cannot be casted to Drawable.

Replace

(Drawable) findViewById(R.drawable.mydrawable);

with

ContextCompat.getDrawable(getActivity(), R.drawable.mydrawable);

edited May 03 '18 at 13:33

ColdFire

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answered May 03 '18 at 13:19

Sagar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 03 '18 at 13:36

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You can't cast this View as Drawable. You can cast this as EditText, TextView because those finally extend the class View. But Drawable doesn't extend View.

Try this

mydrawable = ResourcesCompat.getDrawable(getResources(), R.drawable.mydrawable, null);

This will be type of android.graphics.drawable.Drawable and your problem may be solved.

edited May 03 '18 at 13:36

OneCricketeer

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answered May 03 '18 at 13:20

AA Shakil

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@cricket_007 did you mean `getBaseContext()` ? – AA Shakil May 03 '18 at 13:31
Actually, nevermind, getting resources was right https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/content/res/ResourcesCompat.html#getDrawable(android.content.res.Resources,%20int,%20android.content.res.Resources.Theme) – OneCricketeer May 03 '18 at 13:35
@cricket_007 Okay than . – AA Shakil May 04 '18 at 05:27

Reference a drawable

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