Question

I wrote my layout entirely in java code because it was just more convenient. (I had a lot of textViews and using for statements were more convenient).

However, my TextViews require the day of the week and in portrait mode, I would like to cut the day of the week to a short form. For example, I want “Sunday” to show “Sun” for portrait mode, but “Sunday” for landscape mode.

I understand how to do this in XML files, but how do I do it in code?

I.e. sample code:

LinearLayout parent = new LinearLayout(getApplicationContext());
parent.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
TextView example = new TextView;
example.setLayoutParams(mparams);
example.setText("Sunday"); //<--make this "Sun" when in portrait but "Sunday" in landscape
parent.addView(example);

Answer 1

If your application is getting restarted when it moves to landscape then you can define the strings that need to be expanded in Landscape mode in values-land

And it is never a good idea to use hard coded strings. Even if you are creating layouts programmatically use strings.xml to store strings