Question

i have a string-array in my res/values/strings.xml

 <string-array name="my_list">  
    <item>Item1</item>
    <item>Item2</item>
</string-array>

i am accessing it in my application as and comparing it with my value in loop.

String[] myStrings = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.my_list);
for(int i=0;i<myStrings.length;i++)
{
    System.out.println(myStrings[i]);
}

Now i need the search the items according to key to get the respective item.Example

<string-array name="my_list">  
    <item name="one">Item1</item>
    <item name="two">Item2</item>
</string-array>

if my search hay key “one” then get its corresponding value(Item1).

How to accomplish this task.

Thanks

Answer 1

What you have there is a Map like data structure. Sadly there is currently no way to create a Map of Strings through XML like that.

You could either do it all in Java or write your map in a Raw XML file and read/parse that in to a map at runtime.