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NSString localizedStringWithFormat
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NSStringExtensions.cs
public static class NSStringExtensions
{
[DllImport(Constants.ObjectiveCLibrary, EntryPoint="objc_msgSend")]
private extern static IntPtr IntPtr_objc_msgSend_IntPtr (IntPtr receiver, IntPtr selector, IntPtr arg1);
public static NSString LocalizedStringWithFormat (this NSString @string)
{
var nsHandle = IntPtr_objc_msgSend_IntPtr (Class.GetHandle (typeof(NSString)), Selector.GetHandle ("localizedStringWithFormat:"), @string.Handle);
var nsstring = Runtime.GetNSObject<NSString> (nsHandle);
return nsstring;
}
}
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cfin-mt commented Jun 13, 2016

This isn't yet working for me. My stringsdict is set up as the iOS documentation describes for English plurals. Is there something special I'm supposed to do with the returned NSString to get it's text value?

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