how to get an uri of an image resource in android

The format is:

"android.resource://[package]/[res id]"

[package] is your package name

[res id] is value of the resource ID, e.g. R.drawable.sample_1

to stitch it together, use

Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://your.package.name/" + R.drawable.sample_1);

Here is a clean solution which fully leverages the android.net.Uri class via its Builder pattern, avoiding repeated composition and decomposition of the URI string, without relying on hard-coded strings or ad hoc ideas about URI syntax.

Resources resources = context.getResources();Uri uri = new Uri.Builder()    .scheme(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)    .authority(resources.getResourcePackageName(resourceId))    .appendPath(resources.getResourceTypeName(resourceId))    .appendPath(resources.getResourceEntryName(resourceId))    .build();

Minimally more elegant with Kotlin:

fun Context.resourceUri(resourceId: Int): Uri = with(resources) {    Uri.Builder()        .scheme(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)        .authority(getResourcePackageName(resourceId))        .appendPath(getResourceTypeName(resourceId))        .appendPath(getResourceEntryName(resourceId))        .build()}

public static Uri resourceToUri(Context context, int resID) {        return Uri.parse(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE + "://" +                context.getResources().getResourcePackageName(resID) + '/' +                context.getResources().getResourceTypeName(resID) + '/' +                context.getResources().getResourceEntryName(resID) );    }