I want to print ŒHI 5¹ in my TextView. So I have simply written :
tv.setText("Welcome to " + R.string.app_name)
where R.string.app_name is <string name="app_name"><b>ŒHI 5¹</b></string>
But the strange thing is textview is showing a number
The number is: 2131230755
I have no idea why this is happening.Please help.
use getString(R.string.app_name)
or
getResources().getString(R.string.app_name);
R.string.app_name is just a long number genereted to identify that resource. The result of string + long is just that long concatenated to that string. so you need to get the string corresponding to that identifier.
Actually every resource (layout, drawable, array, string) gets an identifier, these are put in the R file. layout identifiers are kept together in an inner class called layout, strings in string and so on.
use :
getString(R.string.app_name);
or if you are not in an activity then
mContext.getResource().getString(R.string.app_name);
You can't call direct R.string for your requirement .
Pass getResource().getString
Returns the string value associated with a particular resource ID
Finally
getResource().getString(R.string.your_string);
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Does anyone know a solution for my problem?
I made a editor for my in game Shared Preferences as a Activity. There is a list with all values of one Shared Preferences. But when i write for a textView called value_theme:
value_theme.setText(R.string.editor_div_value + settings_theme);
Android uses an other string resource from an other activity.
When i write
value_theme.setText(R.string.editor_div_value + "" + settings_theme);
the app sets the TextView text to: 21312309366. Does anyone know how to fix that?
Use this:
value_theme.setText(context.getString(R.string.editor_div_value) + "" + settings_theme);
Since you are appending the string, you are mistakenly using the wrong setText method which accepts a CharSequence and sets to the TextView as it is.
Or another way is to do String formatting.
<string name="editor_div_value">Your String value %1$s</string>
To get the String in Java code:
value_theme.setText(context.getString(R.string.editor_div_value, settings_theme));
I am trying to do the following :
t1 is an edit text
a and b are two integers
t1.setText(a+b);
but this is not working in android but it works perfectly with javaswing
A simple solution would be:
t1.setText("" + (a+b));
or maybe:
t1.setText((a+b).ToString());
please do like the following
EditText et=(EditText)findViewById("ID of your EDITTEXT");
int c=a+b;
String s=c.toString();
et.setText(s);
This'll work fine :) If it works vote me :)
but this is not working in android but it works perfactly with
javaswing
It will not, because you're actually calling setText(int resId). See here. Calling this method will search a string in xml resources (E.g. strings.xml). Every id of a string (E.g. #strings/hello) will be compared to resId, If resId matches the string's id that string will be displayed to that widget or else you wil get a ResourceNotFoundException
To display the actual integer, convert it first to String
t1.setText(String.valueOf(a+b))
You are doing like this t1.setText(a+b); it search this id (a+b) in resource file like strings.xml that is not available. So it will throws a exception ResourceNotFoundException..
So to set the number in text view you need to convert it into string.
In Android you need to do like this:-
int sum = a + b;
String sumString = String.valueOf(sum);
t1.setText(sumString);
OR
t1.setText((a+b) + "");
I want to get a string resource name or ID by passing its value.
Example :
<string name="stringName">stringValue</string>
I want to pass the stringValue and get the stringName or ID (id value)
Based on ID i will do some calculation to get another ID of another String resource
I don't know if that's possible and I think the IDs can change without warning if the R class gets newly generated. You could of course try some reflection magic on this class, but I would recommend against it.
I also have this problem, and can think of 2 possible workarounds:
load all the strings and their names into a table, and look in the
table.
Or cycle through my complete list of names, getting the string resource
for each one, and comparing it to my known string resource.
I am implementing the 2nd one, as my list of string resources is not very big, and I don't have to do this operation very often. Once the name is known, it's possible to get the Resource Id via:
//Get resource id from name
var resourceId = (int) typeof (MyApp_droid.Resource.String).GetField(MyStringName).GetValue(null);
(code is C# because I'm working in Xamarin).
I faced an interesting problem today. I have 4 strings which I need to show on app on random basis. So I simply added the strings to my string.xml and was setting my textview to show the text as
textView.setText(R.string.text_1);
or (if random number was 2)
textView.setText(R.string.text_2);
and so on
I observed that the change is just in last character, so tried using reflection
Class c = Class.forName("com.startpage.mobile.R$string");
Field field = c.getDeclaredField("text_"+num); //num is 1/2/3/4
System.out.println("********** "+field.get(null));
Now the field.get(null) actually return the Id (hexadecimal number in R.java) value instead of string value I would expect.
Is there a way to fetch actual value of string using reflection or this is something in android which I will have to live with?
getResources.getString(resourceId);
R.string.text_2
will always return the hex number. To really get the string value, you have to try the following
MyActivity.this.getResources.getString(R.string.text_2);
You can simply request your resource ID from the resource manager:
Class c = Class.forName("com.startpage.mobile.R$string");
Field field = c.getDeclaredField("text_" + num);
int resId = (int)field.get(null);
String text = this.getResources().getString(resId);
textView.setText(text);
I suggest you to use array of strings and choose random item from it
I am trying to set String values for ids defined in xmls. I have defined the set of text which can be assigned to different ids in the layout xml files. Thereby I can also see the int values that are associated with different texts in R.java.
I have stored the variable names that I have given to the texts in my database along with the R.id prefix as they appear in R.java file.
For setting text,
TextView messageone = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textfield1);
Normal Usage:
String message = "Hi, hello";
messageone.setText(Status);
What i want to implement:
public static final int messagestring is present in R.java
R.id.messagestring is stored in sqlite database in text format
messageone.setText(what_here);
what_here = a way to get the value from "R.id.messagestring" string as obtained from database.
I know public int getIdentifier (String name, String defType, String defPackage)
can be used here. The only change would be stored text in database will change from R.id.messagestring to messagestring. But there is a note discouraging this type of implementation.
It says: use of this function is discouraged. It is much more efficient to retrieve resources by identifier than by name.
Android Docs getIdentifier
I think although this method seems like a longer implementation, can be efficient when the objects dealt with are not text.
There's a getString(int Id) method you can use inside an Activity. It will return a String from a given R.string Id.
String something = getString(R.string.something);
I hope I helped out a bit here, because I'm not entirely sure if I understand your question.