Are "compound identifiers" possible for string resources in Android?

Question

Are "compound identifiers" possible for string resources? Like this

val level = 1      <- current level
getString(R.string.answer + level)    <- and this is get (R.string.answer1) string

Is something like that possible?

Answer 1

Make use of the Resources.getIdentifier(String, String, String) method to dynamically generate the resource ID that you want, and then call getString(int) as normal using that generated ID.

e.g.

int level = 1;
String name = "answer" + level;
int stringResId = getResources().getIdentifier(name, "string", getPackageName());

String result = getString(stringResId);

See the link for Javadoc information on the parameters.

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