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I want to change the hint property of an edittext field from my activity layout in a function I created in mainActivity.kt. The previous value of hint was from string.xml in resources -> values -> string.xml file.

How do I access string in main and change its value to something else?

ADM
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Let's see. If you have in your string.xml value like this 

<string name="simple_text">Simple text</string>

And you want to use the text from your MainActivity, you can write this code 

textView.setText(getString(R.string.simple_text));

In you case you can change the hint like this

editText.setHint(getString(R.string.simple_text));

But you can't from MainActivity change any value in Strings.xml.

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editText.setHint(getString(R.string.simple_text));
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You can't change strings.xml dynamically since it's a compiled resource. There are other ways for saving data in Android, here's a nice post that covers this topic: Data Storage. Hope this helps. But you can change the hint value dynamically.

EditText etUsername;
etUsername = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etUsername);
etUsername.setHint("Your Hint");
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