How to access String resource from another application.

Question

hi,

I have a application 'A' and application 'B'.

Say, I have a string resource in the application 'A'

<\string name="abc">ABCDEF<\/string>

How do I access the value of abc from the Activity in 'B'.

I tried the following method.

try { PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();

ComponentName component = new ComponentName(
    "com.android.myhome",
    "com.android.myhome.WebPortalActivity");
ActivityInfo activityInfo = pm.getActivityInfo(component, 0);
Resources res = pm.getResourcesForApplication(activityInfo.applicationInfo);
int resId = res.getIdentifier("abc", "string", null);

} catch(NameNotFoundException e){

}

Always resId is returned 0 always.. Can anyone please let me know if I could access string abc from the application 'B'

Regards, SANAT

Answer 1

You can't access a string resource in one application from another application.

Edit: Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't think this was possible. Have you tried specifying a package in the 3rd parameter of getIdentifier()? I thought it was only optional because you could set it as part of the string in the first parameter, but I thought you always had to specify a package one of those 2 ways.