Are there any side-effects of using multiple string.xml files?

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sam picture sam · Dec 17, 2012 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

I am currently creating an application that have some strings (>300 for now) and I have some problems to quickly find a string with so many of them. So I was considering the possibility of using several string.xml files instead of only one (string_menu, string_activity1, ...).

Is there any side-effect with this practice? Is it a bad or a good practice?

I ask this because it seems that no many people on the net are using this possibility. So maybe there is some problem with it?

Answer

chrulri picture chrulri · Dec 17, 2012

As stated in the documentation you can use whatever filename you want:

The filename is arbitrary. The <string> element's name will be used as the resource ID.

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