Preview android.R.drawable.* images

This morning I was going through the Android SDK docs- specifically android.R.drawable class, to find out what stock icons android has that I can use in my project. Android has lot of icons in this class and one is encouraged to use stock icons whenever possible.

However I couldn't find any way to see how these icons look like. Their names are supposed to tell something about them, but they are vaguely descriptive at best. So I asked around on stackoverflow for help. I got a helpful link, but it is still a subset of all the drawables.

After a bit of thinking, I figured java reflection can help here and I put some code together. I ended up with a simple app which lists all the icons alongside their names. So now when you want to check out how a particular android.R.drawable.* looks like just scroll through this list.

Get the tarball and the apk. For the basic code snippet, check out my reply on stackoverflow.

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