Get attribute name from string array
In the documentation there is no name
attribute for an <item>
.
So I don't think there will be any way to get those keys.
However, if you want to get name of string
or string-array
, you can get it programmatically but not for the <item>
.
As "001" is just the index, why not simply use that?
<string-array name="USA">
<item>NY</item>
<item>LA</item>
</string-array>
Then just use index + 1
for the position:
String[] usaStates = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.USA);
int index = 0;
String firstStateName = usaStates[index];
int firstStatePosition = (index + 1);
That aside, you can use two arrays and merge them into a HashMap
:
<string-array name="USA">
<item>NY</item>
<item>LA</item>
</string-array>
<string-array name="USA_pos">
<item>001</item>
<item>002</item>
</string-array>
String[] usaStates = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.USA);
String[] usaStatePositions = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.USA_pos);
Map <String, String> map = new HashMap<>(usaStates.length);
for (int i = 0; i < usaStates.length; i++) {
map.put(usaStates[i], usaStatePositions[i]);
}