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 think the safest and cleanest approach hasn't been posted yet, so here's my $0.02:

How about creating an enum type in the code that references the string resource id for its display value:

public enum Country {
   FRA(R.string.france),
   BEL(R.string.belgium),
   SWE(R.string.sweden),
   ...;

   @StringRes public int stringResId;

   Country(@StringRes id stringResId) {
       this.stringResId = stringResId;
   }
} 

Then in strings.xml:

France
...

And when you receive an item from the web service:

Country country = Country.valueOf(countryCodeFromServer);
context.getResources().getString(country.stringResId);

Build time checks will ensure that each country has a resource for each locale, which you won't have if you maintain the list as an array resource.