Question

I am trying to reference a string stored in a .xml file, and every time i reference it I just get a string of numbers.

      if (Medals.medal_counter1 == 0) {
            Medals.medal_counter1++;
            victory.setMessage("you won " + R.string.medal01);

        }
                     victory.show();

Here is the stored string.

<string name="medal01">&quot;A medal&quot;</string>

The dialog I actually get is something more like this,

“you won 21310334567”

Any solutions?

Answer 1

That’s because you are getting the string resource’s ID. If you want to retrieve the actual string content you need to use Context.getString(int resourceId) method.

For instance, from inside an Activity:

victory.setMessage("you won " + getString(R.string.medal01));

Otherwise:

victory.setMessage("you won " + victory.getContext().getString(R.string.medal01));