Question

Good day, i will try to explain my problem as best as i can. i have in one of my class, getters and setters for a string object. Now in my getString() method, i am trying to compare the string to a string-array of items in my String.xml to see if any of the elements in the string-array file matches the given string and return that matched item element in the string array.

I have something like this so far:

for setPlace():

public void setPlace(String place) {

this.place = place;
    }

for getPlace():

        public String getPlace() {

        //am stuck here and not sure how to compare this and return the correct item

   if(place.equals(context.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.myPlacesArray))){

                //return context.getResources().getString();        
            }

my Strings.xml file:

<string-array name="myPlacesArray">
    <item>@string/myplace1</item>
    <item>@string/myPlace2</item>
    <item>@string/myPlace3</item>
</string-array>

<string name="myplace1">home</string>
<string name="myplace2">office</string>
<string name="myplace3">gym</string>

the reason i have to do this, is because it has different locales(languages) values and it would be a lot easier than writing a huge list of if/else or switch statements for different String elements and languages. Please any ideas is highly appreciated. Thank you

Answer 1

Check this Code for getting value from String.xml and compare :

    String[] categoriesAndDescriptions =getResources().getStringArray(R.array.myPlacesArray);
    for(String cad : categoriesAndDescriptions) {
        String categoryAndDesc = cad;
        Log.v("CategoryName", categoryAndDesc);
        if(place.equalsIgnoreCase(categoryAndDesc)){
        //Do your Stuffs here
        }

    }