Syntax error on token "QUOTE", VariableDeclaratorId expected after this token

Question

I've posted a bigger chunk of the code below. You can see that initially QUOTE was procedural- coded in place. I'm trying to learn how to use declarative design so I want to do the same thing but by using resources. It seems like I need to access the string.xml thru the @R.id tag and identify QUOTE with that string value. But I don't know enough to negotiate this. Any tips? Thanks!

public class circle extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(new GraphicsView(this)); }

static public class GraphicsView extends View {

  //private static final String QUOTE = "Happy Birthday to David.";

   private final String QUOTE = getString(R.string.quote);

..... @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { // Drawing commands go here

     canvas.drawPath(circle, cPaint);
     canvas.drawTextOnPath(QUOTE, circle, 0, 20, tPaint);

Answer 1

Basically I want to have the same text but as a resource in strings.xml

At minimum, you heed a file named res/values/strings.xml with the following:

<resources>
  <string name="quote">Happy Birthday to David.</string>
</resources>

You then use getString(R.string.quote) to get at the string value in your Java code. Note that you already probably have a res/values/strings.xml file, created for you when the project was created, so just add the <string> element shown above alongside the other such elements in that file.

Can someone please educate me a little and recommend a good resource for these type of questions? I'm using HelloAndroid at the moment and I also have "Beginning Android".

String resources are covered on pages 175-180 of Beginning Android. A current version of the sample project from that section can be found here.