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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Setting the Weather Icon

Jessica Soruco
Jessica Soruco
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Posted by Jessica Soruco
Jessica Soruco
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I didn't quite get how did images suddenly become type int and can be accesed with R.mipmap.clear_day;

Can someone explain this step please

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Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
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Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
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The R class holds ids for assets, so the image itself is not of type int, it just has an id of type int that refers to it.