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Android supports regular externalized strings, along with string formats, where the string has placeholders for dynamically inserted information.. Plain Strings Generally speaking, all

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Chapter

Working with Resources

Resources are static bits of information held outside the Java source code You have

seen one type of resource—the layout—frequently in the examples in this book As you’ll

learn in this chapter, there are many other types of resources, such as images and

strings, that you can take advantage of in your Android applications

The Resource Lineup

Resources are stored as files under the res/ directory in your Android project layout

With the exception of raw resources (res/raw/), all the other types of resources are

parsed for you, either by the Android packaging system or by the Android system on the

device or emulator So, for example, when you lay out an activity’s UI via a layout

resource (res/layout/), you do not need to parse the layout XML yourself; Android

handles that for you

In addition to layout resources (introduced in Chapter 4) and animation resources

(introduced in Chapter 9), several other types of resources are available, including the

following:

Images (res/drawable/), for putting static icons or other pictures in a

user interface

Raw (res/raw/), for arbitrary files that have meaning to your

application but not necessarily to Android frameworks

Strings, colors, arrays, and dimensions (res/values/), to both give

these sorts of constants symbolic names and to keep them separate

from the rest of the code (e.g., for internationalization and localization)

XML (res/xml/), for static XML files containing your own data and

structure

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String Theory

Keeping your labels and other bits of text outside the main source code of your

application is generally considered to be a very good idea In particular, it helps with internationalization and localization, covered in the “Different Strokes for Different Folks” section later in this chapter Even if you are not going to translate your strings to other languages, it is easier to make corrections if all the strings are in one spot, instead of scattered throughout your source code

Android supports regular externalized strings, along with string formats, where the string has placeholders for dynamically inserted information On top of that, Android supports

simple text formatting, called styled text, so you can make your words be bold or italic

intermingled with normal text

Plain Strings

Generally speaking, all you need for plain strings is an XML file in the res/values

directory (typically named res/values/strings.xml), with a resources root element, and one child string element for each string you wish to encode as a resource The string element takes a name attribute, which is the unique name for this string, and a single text element containing the text of the string

<resources>

<string name="quick">The quick brown fox </string>

<string name="laughs">He who laughs last </string>

</resources>

The only tricky part is if the string value contains a quotation mark (") or an apostrophe (') In those cases, you will want to escape those values, by preceding them with a backslash (e.g., These are the times that try men\'s souls) Or, if it is just an

apostrophe, you could enclose the value in quotation marks (e.g., "These are the times that try men's souls.")

You can then reference this string from a layout file (as @string/ , where the ellipsis is the unique name, such as @string/laughs) Or you can get the string from your Java code by calling getString() with the resource ID of the string resource, which is the unique name prefixed with R.string (e.g., getString(R.string.quick))

String Formats

As with other implementations of the Java language, Android’s Dalvik virtual machine supports string formats Here, the string contains placeholders representing data to be replaced at runtime by variable information (e.g., My name is %1$s) Plain strings stored

as resources can be used as string formats:

String strFormat=getString(R.string.my_name);

String strResult=String.format(strFormat, "Tim");

((TextView)findViewById(R.id.some_label)).setText(strResult);

Styled Text

If you want really rich text, you should have raw resources containing HTML, and then

pour those into a WebKit widget However, for light HTML formatting, using <b>, <i>,

and <u>, you can just use a string resource The catch is that you must escape the

HTML tags, rather than treating them normally:

<resources>

<string name="b">This has &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt; in it.</string>

<string name="i">Whereas this has &lt;i&gt;italics&lt;/i&gt;!</string>

</resources>

You can access these the same way as you get plain strings, with the exception that the

result of the getString() call is really an object supporting the android.text.Spanned

interface:

((TextView)findViewById(R.id.another_label))

setText(getString(R.string.b));

Styled String Formats

Where styled text gets tricky is with styled string formats, as String.format() works on

String objects, not Spanned objects with formatting instructions If you really want to

have styled string formats, here is the work-around:

1 Entity-escape the angle brackets in the string resource (e.g., this is

&lt;b&gt;%1$s&lt;/b&gt;)

2 Retrieve the string resource as normal, though it will not be styled at this

point (e.g., getString(R.string.funky_format))

3 Generate the format results, being sure to escape any string values you

substitute, in case they contain angle brackets or ampersands

String.format(getString(R.string.funky_format),

TextUtils.htmlEncode(strName));

4 Convert the entity-escaped HTML into a Spanned object via

Html.fromHtml()

someTextView.setText(Html

.fromHtml(resultFromStringFormat));

To see this in action, let’s look at the Resources/Strings demo Here is the layout file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

>

<LinearLayout

android:orientation="horizontal"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

>

<Button android:id="@+id/format"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="@string/btn_name"

/>

<EditText android:id="@+id/name"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

/>

</LinearLayout>

<TextView android:id="@+id/result"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

/>

</LinearLayout>

As you can see, it is just a button, a field, and a label The idea is for users to enter their name in the field, and then click the button to cause the label to be updated with a formatted message containing their name

The Button in the layout file references a string resource (@string/btn_name), so we need

a string resource file (res/values/strings.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>

<string name="app_name">StringsDemo</string>

<string name="btn_name">Name:</string>

<string name="funky_format">My name is &lt;b&gt;%1$s&lt;/b&gt;</string>

</resources>

The app_name resource is automatically created by the activityCreator script The btn_name string is the caption of the Button, while our styled string format is in

funky_format

Finally, to hook all this together, we need a pinch of Java:

package com.commonsware.android.strings;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.text.TextUtils;

import android.text.Html;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.EditText;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class StringsDemo extends Activity {

EditText name;

TextView result;

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {

super.onCreate(icicle);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

name=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.name);

result=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);

Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.format);

btn.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(View v) {

applyFormat();

}

});

}

private void applyFormat() {

String format=getString(R.string.funky_format);

String simpleResult=String.format(format,

TextUtils.htmlEncode(name.getText().toString()));

result.setText(Html.fromHtml(simpleResult));

}

}

The string resource manipulation can be found in applyFormat(), which is called when

the button is clicked First, we get our format via getString() (something we could have

done at onCreate() time for efficiency) Next, we format the value in the field using this

format, getting a String back, since the string resource is in entity-encoded HTML Note

the use of TextUtils.htmlEncode() to entity-encode the entered name, in case someone

decides to use an ampersand or something Finally, we convert the simple HTML into a

styled text object via Html.fromHtml() and update our label

When the activity is first launched, we have an empty label, as shown in Figure 20–1

Figure 20–1 The StringsDemo sample application, as initially launched

When you fill in a name and click the button, you get the result shown in Figure 20–2

Figure 20–2 The same application, after filling in some heroic figure's name

Got the Picture?

Android supports images in the PNG, JPEG, and GIF formats GIF is officially

discouraged, however PNG is the overall preferred format Images can be used

anywhere you require a Drawable, such as the image and background of an ImageView Using images is simply a matter of putting your image files in res/drawable/ and then referencing them as a resource Within layout files, images are referenced as

@drawable/ where the ellipsis is the base name of the file (e.g., for

res/drawable/foo.png, the resource name is @drawable/foo) In Java, where you need

an image resource ID, use R.drawable plus the base name (e.g., R.drawable.foo)

To demonstrate, let’s update the previous example to use an icon for the button instead

of the string resource This can be found as Resources/Images First, we slightly adjust the layout file, using an ImageButton and referencing a Drawable named @drawable/icon:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

>

<LinearLayout

android:orientation="horizontal"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

>

<ImageButton android:id="@+id/format"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:src="@drawable/icon"

/>

<EditText android:id="@+id/name"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

/>

</LinearLayout>

<TextView android:id="@+id/result"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

/>

</LinearLayout>

Next, we need to put an image file in res/drawable with a base name of icon In this

case, we use a 32-by-32 PNG file from the Nuvola icon set

(http://www.icon-king.com/projects/nuvola/) Finally, we twiddle the Java source, replacing our Button

with an ImageButton:

package com.commonsware.android.images;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.text.TextUtils;

import android.text.Html;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.ImageButton;

import android.widget.EditText;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class ImagesDemo extends Activity {

EditText name;

TextView result;

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {

super.onCreate(icicle);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

name=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.name);

result=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);

ImageButton btn=(ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.format);

btn.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(View v) {

applyFormat();

}

});

}

private void applyFormat() {

String format=getString(R.string.funky_format);

String simpleResult=String.format(format,

TextUtils.htmlEncode(name.getText().toString()));

result.setText(Html.fromHtml(simpleResult));

}

}

Now, our button has the desired icon, as shown in Figure 20–3

Figure 20–3 The ImagesDemo sample application

XML: The Resource Way

If you wish to package static XML with your application, you can use an XML resource Simply put the XML file in res/xml/ Then you can access it by getXml() on a Resources object, supplying it a resource ID of R.xml plus the base name of your XML file For example, in an activity, with an XML file of words.xml, you could call

getResources().getXml(R.xml.words)

This returns an instance of an XmlPullParser, found in the org.xmlpull.v1 Java

namespace An XML pull parser is event-driven: you keep calling next() on the parser to get the next event, which could be START_TAG, END_TAG, END_DOCUMENT, and so on On a START_TAG event, you can access the tag’s name and attributes; a single TEXT event represents the concatenation of all text nodes that are direct children of this element By looping, testing, and invoking per-element logic, you parse the file

To see this in action, let’s rewrite the Java code for the Files/Static sample project to use an XML resource This new project, Resources/XML, requires that you place the words.xml file from Static not in res/raw/, but in res/xml/ The layout stays the same,

so all that needs to be replaced is the Java source: