Question

I faced an interesting problem today. I have 4 strings which I need to show on app on random basis. So I simply added the strings to my string.xml and was setting my textview to show the text as

textView.setText(R.string.text_1);

or (if random number was 2)

textView.setText(R.string.text_2);

and so on

I observed that the change is just in last character, so tried using reflection

Class c =  Class.forName("com.startpage.mobile.R$string");

Field field = c.getDeclaredField("text_"+num); //num is 1/2/3/4
System.out.println("********** "+field.get(null));

Now the field.get(null) actually return the Id (hexadecimal number in R.java) value instead of string value I would expect.

Is there a way to fetch actual value of string using reflection or this is something in android which I will have to live with?

Answer 1

getResources.getString(resourceId);