Question

I have following code:

String personalinfos[] = {"Age", "Gender", "Height", "Weight"};
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.myLayout);

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(Screening.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, personalinfos));

And it works, it does it’s job. But as I need to do internationalized / localized project, I’m moving it to strings.xml, so I’ve added this to strings.xml

<string-array name="my_keys">
    <item>Age</item>
    <item>Gender</item>
    <item>Height</item>
    <item>Weight</item>
</string-array>

And tried to change code into:

String personalinfos[] = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.my_keys);

Assuming that I’ll get same result, but I don’t, my app crashes.

So question here:

What’s the proper way to read string-array from strings.xml?

I do not understand why it crashes.

Answer 1

try to define your strings one by one in strings.xml, then define your items in array like:

<item>@string/string_identifier</item>

is it working?

more info about strings and string arrays here