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Nkzn
Nkzn

Reputation: 41

How can I nest string resource?

This is what I want to do, in standard way.

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="foo_bar">foo bar</string>

Can I rewrite like below?

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="foo_bar">@string/foo bar</string>

I know this is not in schema, however, it is OK like below,

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="altfoo">@string/foo</string>

Why!?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2035

Answers (1)

Raghunandan
Raghunandan

Reputation: 133560

This 

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="foo_bar">@string/foo bar</string>

wrong coz there is no resource with the name foo bar

The above would be right if you had

<string name="foo bar">foo and bar</string>
<string name="foo_bar">@string/foo bar</string>

This

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="altfoo">@string/foo</string>

is right coz there is a resource with name foo and you are referencing the same

You may want to check

Concatenate Strings in the strings.xml file for Android

Upvotes: 2

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