Question

I want to play around with making an Android app that displays a famous quote of the day. So I will have 365 quotes and each day will display a new one. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this? Do I need 365 @strings in my string.xml file? Is there a way to access an array of strings (or another data structure perhaps) by their index to accomplish this?

Answer 1

If you want to use resources:

Resources res = getResources();
String[] quoteTexts = res.getStringArray(R.array.quotes_array);
quoteTexts[dayNumber]..<---- gives you your text

In resource file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string-array name="quotes_array">
    <item>I am rich</item>
    <item>Quote 2</item>
    <item>Quote 3</item>
     ....365 .... times....
 </string-array>
</resources>