Creating hashmap/map from XML resources

Question

I\'m making an application where a web service fetches (amongst other) a bunch of codes from a webservice (I.e BEL, FRA, SWE). During runtime I want to translate these codes

Answer 1

I've found Vladimir's answer quite compelling so I implemented his first suggestion:

public SparseArray parseStringArray(int stringArrayResourceId) {
    String[] stringArray = getResources().getStringArray(stringArrayResourceId);
    SparseArray outputArray = new SparseArray(stringArray.length);
    for (String entry : stringArray) {
        String[] splitResult = entry.split("\\|", 2);
        outputArray.put(Integer.valueOf(splitResult[0]), splitResult[1]);
    }
    return outputArray;
}

using it is straight forward. In your strings.xml you have a string-array like so:

    0|Item 1
    1|Item 4
    2|Item 3
    3|Item 42
    4|Item 17

and in your implementation:

SparseArray myStringArray = parseStringArray(R.array.my_string_array);