It turns out that it’s easy to create and use a static array of strings in Android. Of course you can do this in Java code, as I describe in my Java string array tutorial, but for Android I’m talking about doing this in XML. In short, this is how you define a static string array in an Android XML file: <string-array name="my_books">

Define a string array with an item for each string used by your application. Name your string array resources appropriately. For example, the following XML excerpt defines an array that contains each of the game character race types defined in the strings.xml resource file in Step 1:

An array of strings that can be referenced from the application. Note: A string array is a simple resource that is referenced using the value provided in the name attribute (not the name of the XML file). As such, you can combine string array resources with other simple resources in the one XML file, under one <resources> element.

android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/hello" /> This application code retrieves a string: You can use either getString(int) or getText(int) to retrieve a string. getText(int) retains any rich text styling applied to the string. An array of strings that can be referenced from the application.