Android: Get String From Resource By Name

niels — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:54:58 +0000

Usually the string resources in your Android application are being referred to by a unique ID. But sometimes you will want to recover a string by its key, e. g. when you build the key of the string at the run time of your application (“Battery_Health_2″ or “Battery_Health_3″). You can do that like this:

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

Check this link if you need to recover in image resource by its name.
More information about string resources is available in the Android Developer Documentation.

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Android: Get String From Resource By Name