Question

I show a progress dialog with an asynchronous task.

private class RetrieveTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String>
{
    RetrieveTask t = this;
    ProgressDialog d = null;

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute()
    {
        // TODO
        //d = ProgressDialog.show(context, "", context.getString(R.string.querying_server), true, true, new DialogInterface.OnCancelListener() {
        d = ProgressDialog.show(context, "", "Loading...", true, true, new DialogInterface.OnCancelListener() {
                public void onCancel(DialogInterface dialog) {
                t.cancel(true);
        }
        });
    // continues....

By this stage context has been set to the root activity.

I’d like to localise the message as indicated in the comment following the “TODO”. To do this I need to get at the strings resource; how do I best do this from here?

Answer 1

I’m missing a getResources() call, that’s all.

context.getResources().getString(R.string.my_string_id);