Question

I’ve been attempting to utilize the plurals resource with Android but have not had any luck.

Here is my resource file for my plurals:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources xmlns:xliff="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2">
        <plurals name="meters">
            <item quantity="one">1 meter</item>
            <item quantity="other">
                <xliff:g id="count">%d</xliff:g>
                meters
            </item>
        </plurals>
        <plurals name="degrees">
            <item quantity="one">1 degree</item>
            <item quantity="other">
                <xliff:g id="count">%d</xliff:g>
                degrees
            </item>
        </plurals>
    </resources>

…and then here is the code I am using when I attempt to extract the quantity string from my resources:

Resources res = this.getResources();
tTemp.setText(res.getQuantityString(R.plurals.degrees, this.mObject.temp_c.intValue()));

…but the text in the TextView remains to be %d degrees and %d meters.

Does anyone know what is happening? I’ve debugged the code and the res.getQuantityString(…) call is returning a String whose value is %d degrees or %d meters. Though when the quantity happens to be 1 it does correctly evalute to 1 degree or 1 meter.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Regards, celestialorb.

Answer 1

It appears that you need to specify the count twice, the first is used to determine the string to use, and the second is the one that is replaced into the string. e.g.

Resources res = this.getResources();
int tv = this.mObject.temp_c.intValue();
tTemp.setText(res.getQuantityString(R.plurals.degrees, tv, tv));

And at least in my testing so far, the xliff:g elements in the resource aren’t needed.