Get Application Icon Id - Monodroid

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I need to get the int id of my application icon. Is there any way I can do this?

I'm aware that there's GetApplicationIcon in PackageManager, but this returns a drawable. How can I get the Id of the drawable?

Drawable drawable = ApplicationContext.PackageManager.GetApplicationIcon(applicationInfo);

I was thinking of looping through all the resources in Android, but I'm not sure how, and I think it would be expensive. Any efficient way I can get the icon id?

EDIT: I understand that I can just easily get the resource id from R.drawable.myicon, but I was hoping to get the Id with the use of PackageManager or ApplicationContext.Resources.

EDIT #2: I got it. See my answer below.

Check: [Getting App Icon in Android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4600740/getting-app-icon-in-android) — Paresh Mayani, Jun 13 '13 at 03:43

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '13 at 03:46

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R.drawable.ic_launcher (or other name you gave it) should represent the id you need.

answered Jun 13 '13 at 03:46

Voicu

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '13 at 11:08

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Okay, I got it.

Intent intent = context.PackageManager.GetLaunchIntentForPackage(context.PackageName);
ResolveInfo resolveInfo = context.PackageManager.ResolveActivity(intent, PackageInfoFlags.MatchDefaultOnly);
int appIcon = resolveInfo.IconResource;

answered Jun 13 '13 at 11:08

Nicholas Lie

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Please mark it as an answer to your question if it resolved your issue: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235 – Cheesebaron Jun 14 '13 at 22:26

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '13 at 03:43

Well, since it's your application, you can just look in your manifest. Your icon appears in the <application> tag, in the android:icon attribute. Just look at that file and see what it says.

You don't need to program that, just do it yourself one time.

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