I know this is a simple question, but I can't figure out how to reference strings in android. for example
on this EditText, I don't want to hardcode the string hi, I want it to reference a string in the res folder. How do I do this?
4 Answers
Suppose you have following string in xml.
<string name="string_one">My string</string>
You have to access this in code :
String str = resources.getString(R.string.string_one);
You can also used in xml where you have take EditText :
android:text="@string/string_one"
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Create a file strings.xml in res/values folder, and add a text like
<string name="card">Card</string>
then reference the text in layout as android:text="@string/card"
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Figured it out. All you need to do is create a string in the res value folder and then reference it
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Piotr Chojnacki
It took you 3 minutes to find a solution, maybe next time you should spend a bit more time in trying to figure something out by yourself instead of asking a question straight away. ;)
Create a file strings.xml in res/values/ folder, and add a text in it like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="mystring">MyStringFromXML</string>
</resources>
then reference the text in layout as :
android:text="@string/mystring"
And in Java file do it like:
String string = getString(R.string.mystring);
