CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidtextview
user2910566
user2910566

Reputation:

Not able to display string from a resource in android

I am trying to display a string from a resource

I have displayed the resource of the string in the values folder

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="4dp"
        android:paddingRight="4dp"
        android:paddingTop="10dp" >

        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="140dp"
            android:background="@drawable/frame_background_for_rounded_corners_white_bkg" >

            <ImageView
                android:id="@+id/image1"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:background="@drawable/image_view_background_white_background" />

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/button1"
                android:layout_width="116dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:background="@drawable/button_round_cornered_white_background"
                android:text="Button" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="141dp"
                android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
                android:layout_below="@+id/button1"
                android:gravity="center"
                android:text="@string/BuffetOfferings-Breakfast-statement"
                android:textColor="#000000"
                android:textSize="24sp" />

        </RelativeLayout>
    </RelativeLayout>

In the values folder

styles.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light" />

    <color name="TextColorForTextAboveImage">#FFFFFF</color>


    <string name="BuffetOfferings-Breakfast-statement">Tap the "Breakfast" to offer, then the days and time of its offerings to your customers</string>


</resources>

My OUTPUT ::

enter image description here

Clearly you can see instead of text to display .... reference itself is displaying

How to resolve this !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 85

Answers (4)

Amit Gupta
Amit Gupta

Reputation: 8939

You can't define string in styles.xml directly instead of you can reference to a String from strings.xml.

You should define your string in strings.xml and remove '-' use '_'

strings.xml

Use like this

<string name="BuffetOfferings_Breakfast_statement">Tap the "Breakfast" to offer, then the days and time of its offerings to your customers</string>

Hope this help you.

Upvotes: 0

Himanshu Joshi
Himanshu Joshi

Reputation: 3399

Replace the resource attribute as

 <string name="BuffetOfferings_Breakfast_statement">Tap the "Breakfast" to offer, then the days and time of its offerings to your customers</string>

replace hyphen '-' with underscore'_'

Upvotes: 0

Hardik Joshi
Hardik Joshi

Reputation: 9507

You need to remove your Dash(-) from name attribute.

 <string name="BuffetOfferingsBreakfaststatement">Tap the "Breakfast" to offer, then the days and time of its offerings to your customers</string>

For more information read Document.

Upvotes: 0

Matt Clark
Matt Clark

Reputation: 28589

Your string names need to use _ instead of -.

<string name="BuffetOfferings_Breakfast_statement"></string>

Upvotes: 1

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