How to use getString() on static String before onCreate()?

Question

I am trying to use getString() to get an String from resources to assign it to an String array before my activity is created:

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Answer 1

Another approach could be to initialize the static array with resource identifiers (which are already available as opposed to the resources themselves).

private static final int[] MenuNames = {
    R.string.LCMeterMenu,
    R.string.FrecMenu,
    ...
};

This way, you can defer the loading of resources to when they are actually available:

String s = getResources().getString(MenuNames[i]);