Access TextView string resource name programmatically

Question

I have a TextView created in xml e.g.

<TextView
   android:id="@+id/hello_world_text_view"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:text="@string/hello_world" />

and my strings.xml file has the property

<string name="hello_world">Hello World!!!</string>

Is there any way to get programmatically the resource name (in my example "hello_world") from the TextView?

`R.string.hello_world` ? Or do you mean to fetch the `@string/hello_world` from code? if latter, then no. — Shark, Dec 21 '16 at 13:08
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html — Paul, Dec 21 '16 at 13:09
Yes but I want to take the resource name programmatically e.g. Text View t = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hello_world_text_view); String resourceName = ?? — Hamilton, Dec 21 '16 at 13:09
`getResources().getIdentifier("text_name","id",getActivity().getPackageName()));` try this to get the R reference — JuLes, Dec 21 '16 at 13:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 13:17

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You can do programatically like this

TextView txt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.hello_world_text_view);

getResources().getResourceEntryName(R.id.hello_world_text_view);

answered Dec 21 '16 at 13:17

Surya Prakash Kushawah

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 13:19

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Use this way

String packageName = "your package name";
int resId = getResources().getIdentifier(YourString, "string", packageName);
textView.setText(getString(resId));

answered Dec 21 '16 at 13:19

Harshad Pansuriya

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`getIdentifier(....)` expect first parameter to be the `name` of resource instead of resource value. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Resources.html#getIdentifier(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String) – Feb 06 '19 at 15:40

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 13:23

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Try this:

String yourValue = t.getText().toString();
int resourceId = this.getResources().getIdentifier(yourValue, "string", this.getPackageName());
String resourceName = this.getResources().getResourceEntryName(resourceId);

answered Dec 21 '16 at 13:23

Jan Stoltman

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resourceId == 0 in all cases. – Hamilton Dec 21 '16 at 13:39

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 21 '16 at 13:20

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TextView txt_hello = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello_world_text_view);

get your text :

String hello = txt_hello.getText().toString();

edited Dec 21 '16 at 13:20

Harshad Pansuriya

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answered Dec 21 '16 at 13:20

Jeferson Rodrigues

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Access TextView string resource name programmatically

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