Where to put generated string-resoures that will be included in R.class generation and can be used in layouts?

Asked Aug 27 '18 at 14:28

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I'm having a custom JavaExec gradle task

which I currently use for generating several string resource files for android and other platforms.

I found out that when I'm using gradle directly, like this:

buildTypes {
     debug {
         resValue "string", "test", "test-value"
     }
}

Gradle will generate me a

generated.xml

under

/build/generated/resValues/{debug}/values/

depending on my active {buildType}

For the gradle way it works, but I don't want to use gradle directly for generating my resValues. I want to use my custom script instead!

Well, but when my script generates for example a generated-custom.xml it does not work as it should. It generates the R.class file correctly, but when I want to use my generated string resources in a layout it won't find any of these.

So my question is: Where do I need to put the generated xml file, so that:

The R.class is generated with these string items
The string items can be used in layouts aswell (@string/generated_string_key)

Thanks!

edited Aug 27 '18 at 15:19

asked Aug 27 '18 at 14:28

TheWhiteLlama

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You're saying that even after a clean + Gradle sync you can't just use R.string.test or @string/test? – MidasLefko Aug 27 '18 at 14:32
I can use R.string.test but cannot use @string/test that's why I am a bit confused and thought I was missing a configuration somewhere? – TheWhiteLlama Aug 27 '18 at 14:44
Very strange. I have followed the same approach in the past and it worked fine. Try compiling anyway, maybe the IDE will "find" the resource at compile time. – MidasLefko Aug 27 '18 at 14:47
I will give it a try in a minute! Did you also put the generated file under the resValues/{buildType}/values directory when you did the approach on your project? – TheWhiteLlama Aug 27 '18 at 14:49
No. It just worked. No copy paste or anything like that – MidasLefko Aug 27 '18 at 14:50
Sorry, I didn't mean that. Let me ask you this: Did you also generate the files directly in this directory? :D – TheWhiteLlama Aug 27 '18 at 14:52
Sorry don't remember... – MidasLefko Aug 27 '18 at 15:54

Where to put generated string-resoures that will be included in R.class generation and can be used in layouts?

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