How can i get the name of image currently in imageview (Kotlin)?

Question

I'm trying to make a quiz app. I want to get the name of the image currently displayed in the imageview.

for example, if cat.jpeg is displayed in imageview i want to retrive "cat" as a variable.

use tags. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31651209/how-to-get-the-image-name-of-the-imageview-in-android — Kirguduck, Apr 09 '20 at 15:19
Does this answer your question? [How to get the image name of the ImageView in Android?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31651209/how-to-get-the-image-name-of-the-imageview-in-android) — notquiteamonad, Apr 09 '20 at 17:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 09 '20 at 22:12

There's an accessibility feature called "Content Description". It's a text description for people that, for some reason, are not able to see the image. You can have the description of the image on the XML file and get it in you java/kotlin code.

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If the image and the text (description) are connected, they should belong to a "bigger" object. Since you have a Quizz app, you can have a "Question" object with properties like "questionText", "questionImgUrl", "questionImgText", "questionAlternativeA", ....

So, when you open a activity/fragment with a question, you'll be able to load the image with Question.questionImgUrl (for exemple, the cat photo) and load the info you want by calling Question.questionImgText (the string "cat").

How can i get the name of image currently in imageview (Kotlin)?

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