Accessing Contents of R.String Using a Variable to Represent the Resource Name

Accessing contents of R.string using a variable to represent the resource name

You can use the method to convert string into int identifier:

public static int getStringIdentifier(Context context, String name) {
    return context.getResources().getIdentifier(name, "string", context.getPackageName());
}

Pass in an activity as context parameter (or any other Context instance). Then you can use the identifier as usual with getString() method.

Note that conversion from string to identifier uses reflection and thus can be not that fast, so use carefully.

Android: Accessing string.xml using variable name

See Resources.getIdentifier: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Resources.html#getIdentifier%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String%29 . You can try something like this:

public void showPrompt(Prompt prompt, String label) {
    String message = (String) getResources().getText(getResources().getIdentifier(label, "string", null));
    //show a dialog box with message
}

Try that out and see what that does for you.

EDIT: meh. Try this instead.

public void showPrompt(Prompt prompt, String label) {
    String message = (String) getResources().getText(getResources().getIdentifier(label, "string", "<application package class>"));
    //show a dialog box with message
}

Turns out you have to specify the your package identifier (so if your AndroidManifest.xml has com.blah.blah.blah as the Package put that in the third parameter.

Android development: how to access a string when the ID is in a variable?

You can use this

private String getStringResourceByName(String aString) {
  String packageName = getPackageName();
  int resId = getResources().getIdentifier(aString, "string", packageName);
  return getString(resId);
}

thing.setText(getStringResourceByName("question1"));

Or simply the one liner

getResources().getString(getResources().getIdentifier("question1", "string", getPackageName()))

Android: How do I get string from resources using its name?

The link you are referring to seems to work with strings generated at runtime. The strings from strings.xml are not created at runtime.
You can get them via

String mystring = getResources().getString(R.string.mystring);

getResources() is a method of the Context class. If you are inside a Activity or a Service (which extend Context) you can use it like in this snippet.

Also note that the whole language dependency can be taken care of by the android framework.
Simply create different folders for each language. If english is your default language, just put the english strings into res/values/strings.xml. Then create a new folder values-ru and put the russian strings with identical names into res/values-ru/strings.xml. From this point on android selects the correct one depending on the device locale for you, either when you call getString() or when referencing strings in XML via @string/mystring.
The ones from res/values/strings.xml are the fallback ones, if you don't have a folder covering the users locale, this one will be used as default values.

See Localization and Providing Resources for more information.

Call string with a variable name

If I understand correctly, R.string.stringVariable obviously will not work since R.string is a compiled resource class and stringVariable needs to be a dynamic value.

You can use these options instead

int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(stringVariable, "string", getPackageName());

textview.setText(resID);  // directly set it
String content = getString(resID); // get the variable, then concatenate with other content 

get string from Strings.xml by a variable

As far as I can tell, you could use public int getIdentifier (String name, String defType, String defPackage). Its use is discouraged, though.

To use it (I haven't done it but I had once read about the method) you probably would need to:

int identifier = getResources().getIdentifier ("title","string","your.package.name.here");
if (identifier!=0){
     s=getResources().getString(identifier);
}
else{
    s="";//or null or whatever
}

how to read value from string.xml in android?

Try this

String mess = getResources().getString(R.string.mess_1);

UPDATE

String string = getString(R.string.hello);

You can use either getString(int) or getText(int) to retrieve a string. getText(int) will retain any rich text styling applied to the string.

Reference: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html

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