android: How to get item's attributes from its string-array in strings.xml

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My dad likes to watch his movies and he has a lot of them. He keeps his discs in several binders but there is no system of cataloging at all.

I thought I'd make an android app to help him find them

So i thought id store the information in a string array in strings.xml

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="hello">Hello World, MovieFinderActivity!</string>
    <string name="app_name">MovieFinder</string>
    <string name="movie_prompt">Choose Movie</string>
    <string-array name="all_movies_array">
        <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace</item>
        <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones</item>
        <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith</item>
        <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope</item>
        <item binder="1" page="2">Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back</item>
        <item binder="1" page="2">Star Wars Episode 6: Return of the Jedi</item>
        <item binder="1" page="2">Dr Zhivago Side A</item>
        <item binder="1" page="2">Dr Zhivago Side B</item>    

    </string-array>

</resources>

then i did this

    movie_spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.search_movie_spinner);
    movie_spinner.setAdapter(adapter2);
    movie_spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener((OnItemSelectedListener) this);

and this gets called here

    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
        long arg3) {

    //movie_title is a textview
    movie_title.setText( movie_spinner.getSelectedItem() + "");

}

so whenever a movie gets selected in the spinner, the TextView of movie_title changes to the movie's name

What i want to know is how to retrieve the attributes of binder and page from the node item

Create an xml file. Parse it. – Sherif elKhatib Oct 04 '11 at 08:10 — Sherif elKhatib, Oct 04 '11 at 08:10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '11 at 09:19

AFAIK, you are not able to get attribute values for the resources string array.

The way I see it is that you can have the following options

Create an xml file with you data as sherif mentioned. Eg,

<movies>
   <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace</item>
   <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones</item>
   <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith</item>
   <item binder="1" page="1">Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope</item>
   <item binder="1" page="2">Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back</item>
</movies>

You could use any f the avaliable parsers like DOM,SAX to parse this and create an arraylist or object of your choice.

Create json data instead of xml and use GSON to parse to to a usable object.

android: How to get item's attributes from its string-array in strings.xml

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