How to get an enum which is created in attrs.xml in code

Question

I created a custom View (find it here) with an declare-styleable attribute of type enum. In xml I can now choose one of the enum entries for my custom attribute. Now I want

Answer 1

I know it's been a while since the question was posted, but I had the same issue recently. I hacked a little something together that uses Square's JavaPoet and some stuff in the build.gradle that automatically creates a Java enum class from the attrs.xml on project build.

There's a little demo and a readme with an explanation at https://github.com/afterecho/create_enum_from_xml

Hope it helps.