In my app I put a certain link in strings.xml file and then I use it in the rest of the application. Here is the way I put in strings.xml file :
<string name="link">http://mylink/</string>
and here in how I get it in my activity :
String link = getResources().getString(R.string.link);
The problem is that this String returns sometimes not the value from strings file. I get often #ff666666 and that's strange. Why sometimes it works fine and sometimes not ?
Has anyone any idea about this?
Thanks in advance.
You need to Clean and Build again before running the project.
This is happening because some times new values are added in the R.java file that doesn't get updated, so you need to clean to force the R.java file to refresh and update itself.
Try debugging into the particular method and inspect the value of R.string.link. Is it the same as you would see in the R.java file? Sometimes you get this problem when shifting around stuff in your resource files. "Project->Clean...->Clean all projects" in Eclipse usually solves it.
It is working fine. Just now i checked with following lines. Make sure sure to clean your project and build it.
<string name="link">http://www.google.com</string>
String name = getResources().getString(R.string.link);
Log.e("Name is:",name);
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Here is my values\strings.xml (the default file) and everything is self explanatory:
My question(s):
How can it be "not found in default locale" if I am editing the default locale (values\strings.xml)?
How can it be a lint translation error if I set translatable="false"? In the values-pl\strings.xml (and values-ru, values-iw folders as well) the strings don't exist even? it shouldn't anyway.
I can't seem to understand why I don't get the error for the Russian string.
(I would show the values-ru\string.xml or values-pl\string.xml here but there is nothing there of interest, since the strings are missing anyway...)
this happened to me too
I do 2 things:
Verify entire file to see another translate not done ( I have ones in file en but in pt-br)
Clean, update gradle and quit and restart the Android Studio
Rebuilding can take a long time. YMMV, but...
Simply remove the offending line and re-add it.
Worked for me. Very fast.
In my case this helped me:
Select the strings that cause error.
Cut them.
Paste them again
If it doesn't work for you, try adding the same strings to strings.xml(v21) file.
Press Invalidate Caches / Restart ... to restart android studio. It worked for me. Actually this happened when I had copied files from my other computer and pasted via file explorer.
I solved this issue by following below steps:
cleaning my project
rebuilding it
and finally pressing invalid caches/ Restart in file menu
If you just Clean Project it probably works. It worked for me.
I had the same error message, just with the weird issue that it was thrown in the default locale itself and all translations. Turns out you should not use dots in your name (e.g. name="bla.blub") because it will be internally converted to "bla_blub" and then it cannot match with "bla.blub", hence the error.
I only had to change the dots to underlines in the default locale and then all other errors in other translations (including dots in the name) were gone as well.
But be aware that other build tools can still create issues, so replace all the dots with underlines instead!
Quitting Android Studio and restarting it fixed it for me.
You simply just have to copy the offending line (or just one of the multiple of offending lines), remove it, and re-paste it. That removed the issue for me.
Just make sure that you have same naming conventions on all strings files including the same capitalization.
let's say if you have "sign_in" in strings.xml and "sign_In" in your fr/string.xml, so it will give you error on fr/strings.xml like "is translated here but not found in default locale". So, when you edit to "sign_in". The error will remove.
I was having this problem for all the strings in my xml file.
The thing is, your default strings.xml shouldn't have a tools:locale attribute as the other translated files have. If it does, whenever I compile the app in release mode, it treats it as another translated file.
I've created a tool to manage the translation status of android apps.
It not only tells you what strings are missing on the other languages, but it can also report, and clean the left over strings that you may have deleted on your default translation file.
https://github.com/gubatron/android-missing-strings
To clean all left overs in other languages invoke like this
./ams --cleanleftovers -o all.txt
This will clean the left over strings and it will output the missing strings report for all the languages into the all.txt file
Copy and paste didn't work for me.
I also tried Clean and restart, the previous error was gone but new entered strings still have new errors occur.
I tried closing the opened strings.xml file and Translations Editor, then restart.
strings.xml file and Translations Editor
That works for me.
Well, in my case, this happened when there was a format error with the previous string of the string that's being reported. Unfortuantely that format error was not reported. Correcting the format error solves the issue.
Add this,It will work
<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:ignore="ExtraTranslation">
Press double shift for open Translations Error and then check and uncheck in Untranslatable column the item with error.
I learn android with sample apps from textbook. In the given sample source R.string.something is recognized:
However, in my own EXACT source code, same R.strings are not recognized- highlighted as errors:
Does anyone know how to fix it?
I've had this many time with eclipse, and it was not a setup / code problem on my side. Generally, cleaning, rebuilding and sometime even stopping and restarting eclipse solved it. And yes, it's a pain in the neck ...
Try a clean of your project, if that does nothing then click on the problems tab and see if there's any build related issues, you may be missing a required jar or something!
These are following reason possible.
1-: You import android.R;
2-: Any error in xml files.
3-: Please check you String.xml file may be any error or declare a string more then two time.
I assume you are new to Android.
If so, there are two ways of using text strings in Buttons, textviews and so on:
1) Hardcoded string - you put the text you want in quotation marks (""), for example:
yourTextview.setText("Hardcoded string");
2) You can call the text from your String resources (res/values/strings.xml).
That is a much better approach seeing is is easier to translate, make changes and so on.
In your strings.xml file you can create all your string values, and call them from there.
Like in you example, if in your strings.xml file you have for example:
<string name="delete">This is String resource</string>
you can then call the string from there, like so :
yourTextview.setText(R.string.delete);
Hope this helps!
this is causing the error
public static final class id {
public static final int timeToSend=0x7f080021;
public static final int timeToSend,=0x7f080023;
}
whenever I remove the second and save the file eclipse changes it back. I tried changing it while eclipse is not running and yet when I opened eclipse it changed the file back. I don't have any duplicates in layout to cause the problem. I tried cleaning the project and it didn't work.
turns out I wrote android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/timeToSend," instead of android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/timeToSend" that's why it nade a duplicate with the comma. sorry for the trouble
Maybe it's because you have an XML element with the android:id="#+id/timeToSend," ?
Android ID's cannot have any special characters in them. So android:id="#+id/timeToSend, would be wrong due to the fact that it has a comma. All you have to do is find that ID and rename it.
It's not recommended to edit the R.java file because it generates itself based on all the ID's you have created. The only way to edit it is to get rid of the ID's that you have declared in XML, otherwise, every time you clean the project, they regenerate.
Something that I always try when R.java is giving me problems is rebuilding the project.
You should be able to find the option under Project and then Clean.
That's only if rebuilding it hasn't worked.
Good luck and I hope this helps!
I added this line to my strings.xml, and it wont compile into R.
<string name="cl_txt_verinfo">List Version: %1$s\nAuthor: %2$s\nDate Created: %3$s\nLanguage: %4$s</string>
the errors i get are:
error: Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format; did you mean to add the formatted="false" attribute?
error: Unexpected end tag string
I want to ask how to make this work(i will use string.format later)
and what does "formatted=false" do as opposed to not adding it/add it as true.
Edit:
Clean and build is how I got this error. I got it so many times.
But then I deleted an empty line and clean and rebuild everything is fine.
This is really inconsistent and i have no idea what's causing the problem in the first place.
Two questions left:
Could someone still tell me what difference would "formatted=false"
make?
How did I got this kind of behavior?(reporting error when there's none and i try to fix it by blowing things up and create a mess)
This is not the only time i had an error then it magically fixes itself. sometime i restart my adt and it resolves itself, but not this time sadly.
If you added formatted=false then format specifiers(%,$ etc.) in your string resource are disabled and Formatter won't be able to recognize them. This will definitely help you.
For your 2nd problem there is no exact solution but what I do is delete gen and bin folder and then clean build project. What happens is every time you build a project, android checks if there is any new resource available and adds it to R.java and only after that you can use it.
How do I fix this? I already tried removing the R.java and cleaning the project via eclipse, but it doesn't help.
FYI I am trying to get PhotoStream from here: http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/, but so far it has been very difficult to get things work.
Okay..... 5 mins later google tells me the correct answer...
http://www.fairtec.at/en/it-blog-mainmenu-16/168-the-type-r-is-already-defined
I just didnt search hard enough.
"The type R is already defined"
That's the message you get in Eclipse if you try to build the Funambol Android Sync Client.
Reason is that you have checked two Builders that try to generate the same class.
You just have to uncheck the Java-Builder from Project->Properties->Builders.
Then the application even works fine in the Emulator.
Delete the R.java from the src folder and rebuild the project. This file will be automatically rebuit during this process.
http://www.fairtec.at/en/it-blog-mainmenu-16/168-the-type-r-is-already-defined
click right to project click properties
Project->Properties->Builders.
unckeck java Builder
delete file R.java
You may want to change your package names. It looks like you are using a 'PhotoStream'.jar which has it's R.class defined at the same package structure as you.
Here is a link to the R.java from the project on Google Code. Notice you are using the same package:
http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/Photostream/src/com/google/android/photostream/R.java?r=83
I had the same issue when I imported a project from work. Turning off the Java builder as suggested in the article you found fixed my problem, but when I made code updates they were not reflected in the running app. In my case there was an R.java in my source which I deleted and that fixed my problem.
In my case,
as i m not using any IDE for programming but using command line Android..
i had two xml files, one in layout and other in layout-land. i was using same id "XXX" for both but while declaring i made small mistake
android:id="#+id/XXX" (in layout xml)
android:id="#+id/XXX " (in layout-land xml)
please observe extra space in second id declaration, so while creating R.java they were different and in R.java i had
public static final int XXX=0x7f040046;
public static final int XXX =0x7f040045;
which are same, so please be aware of extra spaces. Thank you