This does not work either, the returned ID is always 0. The items for which I am trying to retrieve an ID are in res/values/array.xml and defined as:
<string-array name="itemName"> <item> value1 @ value2 </item> <item> value3 @ value3 </item> </string-array> The user would have selected from another string-array one of the itemName, the code knows the itemName and I would like to insert it into a getResources().getStringArray to retrieve more info on the item. I tried the following with different combination of packageName but either crash or return id = 0 String packageName = "com.coname.appname:itemName"; int itemsid=getResources().getIdentifier( packageName, null, null); The version below also returns 0. int itemid1 = getIdentifier("R.array."+itemName[listaa_position], "array", getPackageName()); Thanks for any pointers. On Feb 28, 7:04 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Alain wrote: > > Mark, > > > I tried your suggestion with this code, but this throws an exception. > > > String varName = "R.array."+itemName[listaa_position]; > > int itemsid=getResources().getIdentifier(varName, null, > > getPackageName()); > > items = getResources().getStringArray(itemsid); > > > The itemName[] are string-array struct in the res/values/arrays.xml > > Try getIdentifier(itemName[...], "array", getPackageName()); > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android 2.0 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en