HTML in string resource?

Question

I know I can put escaped HTML tags in string resources. However, looking at the source code for the Contacts application I can see that they have a way of not having to enco

Answer 1

Idea: put the HTML in JSON-formatted files and store them in /res/raw. (JSON is less picky)

Store the data records like this in an array object:

[
    {
        "Field1": "String data",
        "Field2": 12345,
        "Field3": "more Strings",
        "Field4": true
    },
    {
        "Field1": "String data",
        "Field2": 12345,
        "Field3": "more Strings",
        "Field4": true
    },
    {
        "Field1": "String data",
        "Field2": 12345,
        "Field3": "more Strings",
        "Field4": true
    }
]

To read the data in your app :

private ArrayList getData(String filename) {
    ArrayList dataArray = new ArrayList();

    try {
        int id = getResources().getIdentifier(filename, "raw", getPackageName());
        InputStream input = getResources().openRawResource(id);
        int size = input.available();
        byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
        input.read(buffer);
        String text = new String(buffer);

        Gson gson = new Gson();
        Type dataType = new TypeToken>>() {}.getType();
        List> natural = gson.fromJson(text, dataType);

        // now cycle through each object and gather the data from each field
        for(Map json : natural) {
            final Data ad = new Data(json.get("Field1"), json.get("Field2"),  json.get("Field3"), json.get("Field4"));
            dataArray.add(ad);
        }

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return dataArray;
}

Finally, the Data class is just a container of public variables for easy access...

public class Data {

    public String string;
    public Integer number;
    public String somestring;
    public Integer site;
    public boolean logical;


    public Data(String string, Integer number, String somestring, boolean logical)
    {
        this.string = string;
        this.number = number;
        this.somestring = somestring;
        this.logical = logical;
    }
}