Question

In my app I put a certain link in strings.xml file and then I use it in the rest of the application. Here is the way I put in strings.xml file :

<string name="link">http://mylink/</string>

and here in how I get it in my activity :

String link = getResources().getString(R.string.link);

The problem is that this String returns sometimes not the value from strings file. I get often #ff666666 and that’s strange. Why sometimes it works fine and sometimes not ?

Has anyone any idea about this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to Clean and Build again before running the project.

This is happening because some times new values are added in the R.java file that doesn’t get updated, so you need to clean to force the R.java file to refresh and update itself.