Questions tagged [string.xml]
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How do I open a browser on clicking a text link in TextView
I made an activity that has some text. I made a link clickable in TextView but and it is working fine (link is visible with underline).
But when I click the link it says Unfortunately app has stopped responding Here is my code.
The TextView…

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Change the default string xml file in android
I started working in my application using English strings for my string resources file, but now I created an Arabic string file , and i want to use this string resources as the default language for my app.
is it possible to change the default…

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Flutter: Can't Find String.xml file
I want to use flutter_share_me 0.9.1 Plug-In. but I can't find String.xml file in my project Folder
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Abir Ahsan
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Get a string resource from "values" folder in Android
I have a default string that needs to be used on the app, no matter the language.
Thinking that it should be independent from the app language I did not put the string inside any of the string.xml files for the different languages. Instead I created…

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How can I find all fake or useless string values in string.xml file?
I have a big and messy string.xml file with 3000 records, which most of the values are useless and never used inside code. I want to find and omit those useless records automatically. Is there a way to find useless records inside string.xml file?

Davoud
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how to get variable into string (string.xml using kotlin
Hi i'm new to programming so ...
I made a simple app and in MainActivity.kt I just have one textview that point to a string.

Herman
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How to use sqlite as string resource instead of strings.xml for language?
I have two API. One is to send me a list of languages and the second is for getting a list of key/value strings. I want to use this key/value as a string resource in the android app, instead of a string.xml file.
For this condition I have decided…

Maulik Patel
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How many times android, read to string.xml when a string is obtained?
If I have this variable activity.getString(R.string.urlService);
in my strings.xml in android, and I use this variable 3 times in my code. How many times android read string.xml file?
When the android application start the content is upload to…

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Why does xliff in android displays format specifier in Edittext hint?
I am working on localization if an app in android studio. While using xliff in the below code, I see the "%s" display in my screen.
Name %s
I know that the %s is…

Kiran Cyrus Ken
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How can I load the strings.xml dynamically? Can I put the file in a server?
Why i ask this is because the size of my APK is huge. I wanna make it smaller.
There're lots of strings in strings.xml. Our product manager force us to support all languages on the earth.
I'd like to know, can I just put some languages of…

kyoraku
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secure string.xml value when reverse engineer happen
How can i hide o encrypt the values of my string.xml file when someone try to reverse engineer? So that i can secure my apk. I already implemented proguard and minify in my build.gradle.
Please help.

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Update Locale not changing the Locale for Android version lower than Build.VERSION_CODES.N (API 24)
for a few days I have been struggling with changing the language in the application, it seems like it's still good but if the API is below 24 (VERSION_CODES.N) it doesn't want to update Locale. I found the solution here:…

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Properly insert text into Android Application
I recently started an Android project as some sort of tutorial, but rather than the same boring List/Web View most android offline tutorial app make use of, I decided to make a it a bit better using Recycler View and card View.
The main problem so…

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Why does TextView cannot display formatted text referred from android resources?
I am trying to display a text that i set in TextView. I have already assigned a string in strings.xml with the name operator_mixed
Strings.xml
%d %s %d %s %d
And in my initialize.java file i tried to refer…

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How to format and style (Bold, TextSize) string resource in Android
Above is the image of what I want to achieve using String.xml
There are three things
'76' & '20' will be replaced dynamically using String.format
'20' should be bold
'20' should be bigger in size
I have tried all the solutions using Html.fromHtml…

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