Hey Greg,
Can't say that I am aware of "few" and "many" as values in "quantity".
I have only used "one" and "other" so far...
Sorry that I can't be much of a help here.
Perhaps developers of the Android platform can shed some light for us?
Hello? haha.
Makas
On Mar 12, 7:57 am, Greg Giacovelli <miyamo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks :) Sadly I just read through tons of source code and got this
> Pretty interesting :) Ok so since you seem to know that, would you
> know what the quantity="few", quantity="many" do?
>
> The src code doesn't seem to define them in the PluralRules
> implemented, or at least nothing that is really concrete. Is there a
> formal definition somewhere?
>
> -Greg
>
> On Mar 11, 1:57 pm, Makas Tzavellas <makas.tzavel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Greg,
>
> > To use plurals. You declare it like this in your strings.xml.
>
> > <plurals name="thing_string">
> > <item quantity="one">%s thing</item>
> > <item quantity="other">@s things</item>
> > </plurals>
>
> > Hope this helps.
>
> > On Mar 11, 10:26 am, Greg <miyamo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I am used to just using a choice format for doing something deciding
> > > between "{0} thing" and "{0} things".
>
> > > However Context and Resources have a lot of utitilities it seems for
> > > dealing with String and loading them with native replacement. One
> > > method of such is Resources.getQuantityText(int id, int quantity) ...
> > > problem is the way to declare the string is not declared anywhere and
> > > upon using this method I am greeted with
>
> > > android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException:Pluralresource ID
> > > #0x7f080050 quantity=450 item=other
>
> > > Looking at the source it does use a native method to load the
> > > pluralized resource so I can't look at the code. Would anyone know how
> > > to use this may-be pretty nifty utility?
>
> > > I was thinking it might be something like:
>
> > > <string name="thing_string" pluralrule="one">%1$d thing</string>
> > > <string name="thing_string" pluralrule="other">%1$d things</string>
>
> > > since they don't use the xml id element but I am just guessing and am
> > > completely stumped.
>
>
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