getString Outside of a Context or Activity

Question

I\'ve found the R.string pretty awesome for keeping hardcoded strings out of my code, and I\'d like to keep using it in a utility class that works with models i

Answer 1

Somehow didn't like the hacky solutions of storing static values so came up with a bit longer but a clean version which can be tested as well.

Found 2 possible ways to do it-

1. Pass context.resources as a parameter to your class where you want the string resource. Fairly simple. If passing as param is not possible, use the setter.

e.g.

data class MyModel(val resources: Resources) {
    fun getNameString(): String {
        resources.getString(R.string.someString)
    }
}

2. Use the data-binding (requires fragment/activity though)

Before you read: This version uses Data binding

XML-

Activity/Fragment-

val binding = NameOfYourBinding.inflate(inflater)
binding.someStringFetchedFromRes = resources.getString(R.string.someStringFetchedFromRes)

Sometimes, you need to change the text based on a field in a model. So you would data-bind that model as well and since your activity/fragment knows about the model, you can very well fetch the value and then data-bind the string based on that.