Android Resources As A Member Variable In The Main Activity

Working the android hello world, I next added some strings to the strings.xml resource file. I then tried setting a member variable of my main activity class to the value of one of

Solution 1:

I don't think you can call getString on the Activity class as it may not have been properly initialised yet. You may need to split the declaration (keep it as a public String) and then the assignment (move that to onCreate).

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
      /** Called when the activity is first created. */
      public String myString;

      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        myString = getString(R.string.MY_STRING); // compiles, but crashes
        TextView tv = new TextView(this); 
        tv.setText(myString);
        setContentView(tv);
      }     
    }