How to access an element of a string array
<string-array name="contextMenuItems">
<item>Edit</item>
<item>Info</item>
<item>Delete</item>
</string-array>
from another resource xml file
<menu>
<item android:id="@+id/Edit"
android:title="@string/contextMenuItems" />
<item android:id="@+id/Info"
android:title="@array/contextMenuItems" />
</menu>
It looks like it can't be done according to the people in this similar post.
How to access <item> from <string-array> resource in an android XML?
My suggestion would be to populate the menu items with some Java code when loading the particular activity or use separate @string values for each menu item.
I would like to re-organize the string resource like below
in the file strings.xml,
<string name="label_edit">Edit</string>
<string name="label_info">Info</string>
<string name="label_delete">Delete</string>
in the file arrays.xml
<string-array name="contextMenuItems">
<item>@string/label_edit</item>
<item>@string/label_info</item>
<item>@string/label_delete</item>
</string-array>
in the file menu.xml
<menu>
<item android:id="@+id/Edit" android:title="@string/label_edit" />
<item android:id="@+id/Info" android:title="@array/label_info" />
</menu>
Hope it helps.
you have to override a function:
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
// Handle item selection
switch (item.getItemId())
{
case R.id.Edit:
//Handled [0]
return true;
case R.id.Info:
// Handled [1]
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
