Add value from @string to my array.xml

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I have my array.xml to fill preferences value.

<string-array name="language">
    <item>English</item>
    <item>German</item> 
    <item>Russian</item>
    <item>Italian</item>
</string-array>

To translate the items I put them in various string.xml file, how can I add the values from @string/english, @string/german etc.?

What is wrong with @string/english and then English in strings.xml ? — StefanMK, Oct 09 '14 at 10:01

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '17 at 09:26

do this...

<string name="jan">January</string>
<string name="fev">February</string>
<string name="mar">March</string>

<string-array name="year">
    <item name="jan">@string/jan</item>
    <item name="fev">@string/fev</item>
    <item name="mar">@string/mar</item>
</string-array>

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

7

Have you tried something like this:

res/values/array.xml
res/values-fr/array.xml
res/values-ja/array.xml

And so on...

If your issue is that you want to substitute the <item> value dynamically, you might have to do this in code. Check out this post: dynamic parameters in strings

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Jun 09 '11 at 13:11

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ops... it was simple... I didn't think to duplicate array.xml :( thanks – kristby Jun 09 '11 at 13:19

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 27 '18 at 07:17

You can just create string arrays in string.xml and other string.xml(ru) etc.

See below code snippet :-

string.xml

<!-- Language array -->
<string-array name="languages">
    <item>English</item>
    <item>Russian</item>
</string-array>

string.xml(ru)

<!-- Language array -->
<string-array name="languages">
    <item>английский</item>
    <item>русский</item>
</string-array>

Add value from @string to my array.xml

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