Question

App version 2.3.3

Here is what i am looking for…

I have few strings in “values/strings.xml”. I wish to retrieve the values depending on the string’s “name” attribute and use it my application. The input to which string in the xml should be used comes dynamically. Here is an example…

My input from other file :: “A” => This value changes. It can be any value in A,B,C,D.

I have different strings in strings.xml, like…

    <string name="A">AforApple</string>
<string name="B">BforBall</string>
<string name="C">CforCat</string>
<string name="D">DforDog</string>

Now, how do i programmatically get the value(AforApple) of the String with name=”A”.

Answer 1

If your code gets a string like “A” and you are trying to dynamically find the string in your resources that matches that name, I don’t think you can do that.

Instead of using the strings.xml, you might want to use arrays.xml and build a HashMap from that before you need to access those strings