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Asked: 2026-05-22T21:25:48+00:00

My android application includes ListView binded with SimpleCursorAdapter to the database. This database contains

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My android application includes ListView binded with SimpleCursorAdapter to the database. This database contains column, which contains data like

somenameofrow
anothername
thirdname

However instead of directly displaying these texts in the ListView, I would like to read according texts (actually – translations) from the Android resources.
How should I do it?

I think that I can use setViewValue for the same, name in the code below is TextView item, which displays my text:

case R.id.name:
    TextView elName = (TextView) view;
    elName.setText(getApplicationContext().getString(R.string.));
    return true;

I am not sure how to understand what is correct id of the resource I am looking for (probably, cursor.getString(columnIndex) or elName.getText()) and how to get the value?

Upd. What if I exclude names from the database and will use ids instead. Will it help?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you read the android guide ListView tutorial, you will find:

    Note that using a hard-coded string array is not the best design practice. One is used in this tutorial for simplicity, in order to demonstrate the ListView widget. The better practice is to reference a string array defined by an external resource, such as with a resource in your project res/values/strings.xml file

    Simply create different string-arrays items in res/values-XX, where XX are the locales you want to translate.

    See the dev guide for more details about resources and i18n: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html

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