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user1130456

Reputation: 51

Android get string name from resource file values.xml

I would like to get name from values resource file. for example

values.xml

<string name="ind_ginger">Ginger</string>
<string name="ind_garlic">Garlic</string>

I am using them for the check boxes like

<CheckBox
    android:id="@+id/c01"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="21dp"
    android:text="@string/ind_garlic"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/c02"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/saveChanges"
    android:layout_alignEnd="@+id/saveChanges" />
 <CheckBox
    android:id="@+id/c02"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="81dp"
    android:layout_marginStart="81dp"
    android:checked="false"
    android:text="@string/ind_ginger"
    android:visibility="visible"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="40dp" />

In application I need access String Name ( Please note value)

for (CheckBox item : checkBoxList){
     if(item.isChecked())
     {
          //String text=item.getText().toString();String viewID = getResources().getResourceName(item.getId()); // gets me the name 
          String name =  getResources().getResourceEntryName(item.getId());
           String tName  =  
          //item.getText().toString();
          // String id = item.getTag().toString();
          Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), tName,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
          Log.d(viewID, TAG);

      }

  }

Is parsing the XML only way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1442

Answers (5)

Rajnish Sharma
Rajnish Sharma

Reputation: 388

Firstly if you need ind_ginger you need to change your code from this

<string name="ind_ginger">Ginger</string>

to

<string name="ind_ginger">ind_ginger</string>

and

String ginger = getResources().getString(R.string.ind_ginger)

to get the ind_ginger. But what I can see from your code is you are using .getResourceEntryName(item.getId()) for that you need to create a String arraylist which would have all the itemId from strings.xml and then you can use them with item.get(position).

Here position is the position of the item in your array list.

Upvotes: 0

Sagar Shah
Sagar Shah

Reputation: 4292

Easiest way to get the "KEY" name is as following:

Log.e("KEY_NAME", getResources().getResourceEntryName(R.string.app_name));

Here you will get "app_name" as result.

This can be also help in support multi-language support feature.

Upvotes: 1

Android Geek
Android Geek

Reputation: 9225

Just Store you string items in (And its better if you store your string file in in strings.xml and not value.xml )

strings.xml 

 <string name="ind_ginger">Ginger</string>
    <string name="ind_garlic">Garlic</string>

Upvotes: 0

RajatN
RajatN

Reputation: 223

You can use this to fetch all the String Keys in string.xml

Field[] fields = R.string.class.getFields();
        String[] allStringNames = new String[fields.length];
        for (int  i =0; i < fields.length; i++) {
            allStringNames[i] = fields[i].getName();
            Log.e("String Key Name",""+allStringNames[i]);
        }

Hope this will help

Upvotes: 0

Sreyas
Sreyas

Reputation: 784

Try 

String ginger = getResources().getString(R.string.ind_ginger)

Upvotes: 1

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