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Cody
Cody

Reputation: 8964

Add or Modify a String Resource dynamically

I would like to set a String resource to some default value, and call that from certain places in my application. If a user has logged in, I would like to display the user's name there.

How can I dynamically modify a string resource to add the currently logged in user's name?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 229

Answers (3)

Nikolay Elenkov
Nikolay Elenkov

Reputation: 52966

You can't modify a resource. You can add two resources: one default and one with a place holder for the username and swith between those in your code. Something like:

<string name="user_not_loggedin">Not logged in.</string>
<string name="user_loggedin">Logged in as %s</string>

Upvotes: 0

Ted Hopp
Ted Hopp

Reputation: 234857

You can't modify resources dynamically. You can store the user's name in persistent store (e.g., shared preferences) and update the display in code.

Upvotes: 4

Nicholas Jordan
Nicholas Jordan

Reputation: 656

you set it to default values in the xml files as best I can tell as those are stable then you can do new StringBuffer(existing).apppend new stuff dot to string back to the string ref

Upvotes: 0

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