I got this same error message when I tried to use TextView.setText passing a char instead of a String. This makes sense since the char would be promoted to an int which meant that I was really calling the TextView.setText( int resId ); And since there wasn’t a resource with that value, it wouldn’t work.
If you are the developer of both applications then the right approach would be, as othes noted, to create an Android library project and share it between apps. Nevertheles, you can still access resources from another app, even if this is not your app: Resources res = context.getPackageManager().getResourcesForApplication(“com.example.foo”)
Will this work? I.e., can we control which strings.xml file it uses via Locale, even if the device has no native support for that language? Yes, you can, by updating Locale within Configuration (see an example below). If you try to use the locale for which there are no corresponding resources (either within your app … Read more
Use Resources.getSystem().getString(android.R.string.someuniversalstuff) You can use it ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE in your application, even in static constants declaration! But for system resources only. For local resources use that solution.
According to the documentation : The selection of which string to use is made solely based on grammatical necessity. In English, a string for zero will be ignored even if the quantity is 0, because 0 isn’t grammatically different from 2, or any other number except 1 (“zero books”, “one book”, “two books”, and so … Read more
It’s the ignore attribute of the tools namespace in your strings file, as follows: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <resources xmlns:tools=”http://schemas.android.com/tools” tools:ignore=”MissingTranslation” > <!– your strings here; no need now for the translatable attribute –> </resources>
Drop the extension: String filename = “abc”; int id = getResources().getIdentifier(filename, “raw”, getPackageName());
Biggest advantage is in Localization and Providing alternate resources for different screen sizes. e.g you can have a String resource R.string.myname this could be a defined in english in /values-en/strings.xml and in spanish in /values-es/strings.xml System will take care or picking up the right file depending on the locale you just need to use @string/myname … Read more
The best way to add html source code in strings.xml is to use <![CDATA[html source code]]>. Here is an example: <string name=”html”><![CDATA[<p>Text</p>]]></string> Then you can display this html in TextView using: myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.html))); If you have links in your html and you want them to be clickable, use this method: myTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
Check android-drawable-importer-intellij-plugin