Question

I have a ArrayList and I want to put a lot of strings into it (several hundred) but I don’t want to code around a huge list of .add()’s and such. Can I important the strings from my strings.xml file into the ArrayList? If so, how?

Answer 1

If you have the values saved in strings.xml file you can simply do this:

ArrayList<String> values = new ArrayList<String>();
Collections.addAll(values, getResources.getStringArray(R.array.words));

or

List<String> values = Arrays.asList(getResources.getStringArray(R.array.words));