Android Reading image names from database

This is probably pretty straight forward, but I am getting no-where at the moment. I have read through a lot of posts but have not hit the answer yet. I have a gallery in my app,based largely on the google gallery app, with the images stored in R.drawable and the paths to the images stored in an 'Integer' array. I have moved the image paths into a database table and am trying to read them back and so display the images, but all I am seeing is a blank gallery. I would be so grateful if someone could point me in the right diorection here, I feel I'm going in circles. Below is the code I use to read the items from the database:

//get the gallery items from the cursor
    ArrayList galleryList = new ArrayList();
    for(cursor.moveToFirst();!cursor.isAfterLast();cursor.moveToNext()){
        Integer gal;
        gal =开发者_JAVA百科 cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex("small_img"));
        galleryList.add(gal);
    }
    myImageIds =(Integer[])galleryList.toArray(new Integer[galleryList.size()]);
    db.close();

This is the Integer array the names paths are read into:

private Integer[] myImageIds;

Then in the 'ImageAdapter' class I try to copy the array into the 'Integer' array mImageIds:

public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    int mGalleryItemBackground;

    public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
        mContext = c;
        mImageIds = Drager.this.myImageIds;

As I say, this gives me an empty gallery, where am I going wrong? Is there a different way to store the paths to the drawable directory in a database? Any help appreciated. Thanks

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The path to your images isn't truly an integer. It's just referenced in that way in the R class. I guess I said that pretty definitively, but what I'm really offering is a hint/clue based on what I believe to be true. It's like R.strings.myString ... that's an "integer" too though it's just an integer reference to a string. Make sense?