[Android] How to check the type of a view widget?

Question

How to get that working:

 if(findViewById(ResIdWithUnkownType) instanceof Bitmap)
 {
       Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap) findViewById(ResIdWithUnkownType);
 } else if(findViewById(ResIdWithUnkownType) instanceof ImageView)
 {
       ImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(ResIdWithUnkownType);
 }

Answer 1

The second block would work just fine. The problem is the first one: findViewById returns a View object always, and Bitmap is not a View, so the first if statement will never be executed.