HippoMan wrote:
> 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?
Resources has getIdentifier() for this. However, this is significantly
less efficient than just using the R static data member. Use it if you
have to (and cache the lookups), but "avoid compile errors" doesn't
strike me as a great reason to do so.
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