I know that I can retrieve a string within an Activity as follows: this.getString(R.string.foobar)
(assuming that I have previously defined a string named "foobar"). However. I'm wondering if there also might be an alternate way to retrieve this same string in a functional manner, without an explicit attribute reference. I'm talking about something like this: this.somehowGetStringAnotherWay("foobar") The reason I'd like this is so I can avoid compile errors if the string doesn't exist. This would allow me to do something like the following: String foobar = null; try { foobar = this.somehowGetStringAnotherWay("foobar"); } catch (SomeSortOfException e) { Log.e("MyActivity", "foobar string not found"); } Is there any way I can do this? Thanks in advance. -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.