Question

Somewhere I read how to use variables in XML document. They said it’s very simple and I guess it was. I successfully used it that way in Android strings.xml file. I was using it that way the whole day until suddenly android stopped to parse it and stopped to treat it like a variable.

I used it in this way:

<resources>
<string name="some_string">string1</string>
<string name="another_string"> {$some_string} trolololo </string>
</resources>

and in java accessing it through: getApplicationContext().getString(R.strings.another_string);

getApplicationContext().getString(R.strings.another_string);

In the output I used to receive string like:

string1 trolololo

and now I receive only:

{$some_string} trolololo

Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? I know that Android’s XML may differ than standard XML, but IT USED TO WORK. Awww… Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

This will solve your problem:

<resources>
    <string name="some_string">string1</string>
    <string name="another_string">@string/some_string trolololo</string>
</resources>

Now the output of the getApplicationContext().getString(R.strings.another_string) will be string1 trolololo.