Android Is it possible to define a map in an XML file?

Question

I was trying to define a static hash table that makes use of resources, but I got stonewalled by the impossibility of accessing resources statically.

Then I realized

Answer 1

A simpler option would be to use two arrays. This has the benefit of not iterating the xml file again, uses less code and its more straight forward to use arrays of different types.

   key1
   key1



   value1
   value2

Then your java code would look like this:

String[] keys = this.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.myvariablename_keys);
String[] values = this.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.myvariablename_values);
LinkedHashMap map = new LinkedHashMap();
for (int i = 0; i < Math.min(keys.length, values.length); ++i) {
   map.put(keys[i], values[i]);
}