Code:
fun main() {
val count = beerLeft()
val talk = getString(R.strings.beer_message)
val msg = "$count $talk"
}
fun beerLeft(): Int {
return 42
}
In strings.xml
<string name="beer_message">bottles of beer</string>Android Kotlin string building question
- Thread starter snotnose
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Put a placeholder (in this case,
If you want to get fancy, there's also a mechanism in Android to handle localized plurals; the docs there have a good example of how that works (with both the content in strings.xml and what you do in your code).
(More broadly, you have a handful of ways you can concatenate strings in Kotlin, including the one you've already discovered with string interpolation; this is the nominally "correct" way to do what you're trying to do, though, as it allows for localization where concatenating strings in code would not.)
%d; i.e. %d bottles of beer) in your string in strings.xml, then pass count as the second argument to getString. So you end up with:
Java:
fun main() {
val count = beerLeft()
val talk = getString(R.strings.beer_message, count)
}
fun beerLeft(): Int {
return 42
}
In strings.xml
<string name="beer_message">%d bottles of beer</string>If you want to get fancy, there's also a mechanism in Android to handle localized plurals; the docs there have a good example of how that works (with both the content in strings.xml and what you do in your code).
(More broadly, you have a handful of ways you can concatenate strings in Kotlin, including the one you've already discovered with string interpolation; this is the nominally "correct" way to do what you're trying to do, though, as it allows for localization where concatenating strings in code would not.)
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Thanks, it never occurred to me to put the %d in the strings.xml file.
I'm really liking Kotlin. Like Python, after a couple hours I can usually guess at the correct syntax and be right.
Now if I could only figure out why my AVD phones keep going away.
I'm really liking Kotlin. Like Python, after a couple hours I can usually guess at the correct syntax and be right.
Now if I could only figure out why my AVD phones keep going away.