Android localization strings from xml

Question

I have xml folder in my res folder with file structured like this:

    <questions>
        <question
            number="1"
            text="my string" 
            numberTwo="1" />
         ...
    </questions/

So is that possible not to hardcode strings here and use @string/... resources because I really need localization here?

Alexander · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-26 20:33:36Z

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You can have

text="mystring" in your xml file

and <string name"mystring">lalala</string> in your strings.xml (possibly localized in other files such as in a folder values-de.xml)

Then in your code you can do:

int stringId = getResources().getIdentifier("mystring", "string");
String string = getString(stringId); // that will be "lalala"

The other way is to have your xml file entirely localized in the folder xml-de but this incurs some text duplication.

answered Oct 26, 2015 at 20:33

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Mirza Adil · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-27 08:06:33Z

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In string.xml ->lalala in your strings.xml ->folder values-de.xml Then in your code you can do in Activity:

String AppName=getResources().getString(R.string.app_name);

And in Fragmetn

String AppName=getActivity().getResources().getString(R.string.app_name);

answered Feb 27, 2018 at 8:06

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