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April 11, 2018 14:31
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Building a resource ID as a string
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Here's my strings.xml | |
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<resources> | |
<string name="app_name">Scratch Pad</string> | |
<string name="hello_world">Hello World!</string> | |
<string name="text_1">text one</string> | |
<string name="text_2">text two</string> | |
<string name="text_3">text three</string> | |
<string name="text_4">text four</string> | |
<string name="text_5">text five</string> | |
</resources> | |
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Here's my activity_main.xml | |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> | |
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" | |
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" | |
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" | |
android:layout_width="match_parent" | |
android:layout_height="match_parent" | |
tools:context=".MainActivity"> | |
<TextView | |
android:id="@+id/text_view" | |
android:layout_width="wrap_content" | |
android:layout_height="wrap_content" | |
android:text="@string/hello_world" | |
android:textSize="32sp" | |
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" | |
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" | |
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" | |
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" /> | |
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout> | |
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and here's my MainActivity.java | |
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package com.example.android.scratchpad; | |
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; | |
import android.os.Bundle; | |
import android.view.View; | |
import android.widget.Button; | |
import android.widget.TextView; | |
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { | |
@Override | |
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { | |
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); | |
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); | |
// I want to get the string named "text_2" from strings.xml | |
int num = 2; | |
// Here I'm building my ID as a string instead of hardcoding it like R.string.text_2 | |
String textID = "text_" + num; | |
int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(textID, "string", getPackageName()); | |
// Now I'm grabbing the value of string "text_2" from strings.xml and putting it into changed_text | |
String changed_text = (String) getText(resID); | |
/** | |
* Changing the "hello world" text in text_view to the value of changed_text | |
*/ | |
TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_view); | |
textView.setText(changed_text); | |
} | |
} | |
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