Android - arrays of arrays

Question

I am working with an onItemClick method on a ListActivity. I want to use putExtra to insert an array based on the position of the clicked item.

The categories array returns one null in the array. Obviously the @array/main does not work. Can anyone help? The code and XML is below.

String[] categories = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.categories);
Intent i = new Intent(parent.getContext(), CategoriesActivity.class);
i.putExtra("categories", categories[position]);
startActivity(i);   

<array name="categories">
    <item>@array/main</item>
</array>

<string-array name="main">
<item>News</item>
<item>Sport</item>
<item>Business</item>
<item>Comment</item>
<item>Life</item>
<item>Society</item>
<item>Culture</item>
<item>Blogs</item>
 </string-array>

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 00:19

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It seems that this would work.

String[] categories = getResources().getStringArray(R.string.main);
Intent i = new Intent(parent.getContext(), CategoriesActivity.class);
i.putExtra("categories", categories[position]);
startActivity(i);

answered Mar 28 '12 at 00:19

PearsonArtPhoto

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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It should be,

Resources res = getResources();
TypedArray ta = res.obtainTypedArray(R.array.categories);

Further you can iterate it using an answer of StackOverflow itself.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Mar 28 '12 at 02:34

Lalit Poptani

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Android - arrays of arrays

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