Hello buys, with compose multiplatform 1.6.0, can we still access image ressource by name instead of...

# compose

[brabo-hi]

Hello buys, with compose multiplatform 1.6.0, can we still access image ressource by name instead of using generated class *Res*

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

Only as a byte array. Put it to the files directory

[Michael Paus]

For me these two lines seem to produce the same result:

val headerGraphicsPainter = painterResource(Res.drawable.header_graphics)
val headerGraphicsPainter = painterResource(DrawableResource(("drawable/header_graphics.png")))

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

It is internal API. Don't use it.
And the first variant supports qualifiers (e.g. density and theme)

[Michael Paus]

Don’t blame me. Blame it on the (missing) documentation 😉. How shall a user distinguish between official and internal API?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

You use the beta1 version 🤷‍♂️ 🙂

[Michael Paus]

Even worse I use the latest dev version 1.6.0-dev1397 😇

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

@brabo-hi why do you need it?

[brabo-hi]

i need to display country flags, those assets are stored as resources. However the list to display will dynamically changing based on some api calls that returns a name of countries to display. It means i need to read image resources by name

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

I don't get the last part. Why don't you want to use IDs instead of strings?

[brabo-hi]

1. i have an api that returns a list of country codes as strings US, UK, CA . ..
2. i have country flags stored as png ressources.
How can i display those flags when the api only returns country code as strings?
It if was only android, i can get resource with something like context.resources.getIdentifier(imageName, "drawable", context.packageName)

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

You are supposed to have a response to id mapper. And a proper error handling for unknown responses

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

Otherwise it will crash unpredictable

[brabo-hi]

yes it looks a better solution, thanks

[brabo-hi]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov it does look Res isn’t generated when used on a multi module project

[brabo-hi]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov is there any dev release that has this fix?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

It's not implemented