Arguments in string resource for a string with styling in android

Question

I have a String in my strings.xml file such as

  <string name="my_text">Hello <b>$%1$s</b>, android is cool <b>bold me</b></string>

The only way to retrieve the text with styling for bolding is using resources.getText(R.string.my_text);

Although the issue is getText does not take additional parameters for the arguments I wish to provide such as the method getString that takes arguments such as resources.getString(R.string.my_text, "I WILL BE BOLDED")

If I use getString I lose the bold, if I use getText I cant pass arguments how do I obtain both?

Answer 1

To expand upon Sagar's answer, set up the string resource using CDATA:

<string name="test"><![CDATA[When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took <b>%s</b> cakes. He took %d cakes. That\'s as many as %s %s. And that\'s terrible.]]></string>

Then, retrieve the string resource using getString() and use HtmlCompat to handle the formatting:

HtmlCompat.fromHtml(getString(R.string.test, "forty", 40, "four", "tens"), HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT)

_{NOTE: The author of the answer can neither confirm nor deny that some number of cakes were consumed in the creation of this answer. However, no actual supervillains were involved, as far as you are aware.}

Answer 2

strings.xml

<string name="my_text">Hello &lt;b>$%1$s &lt;/b>, android is cool &lt;b>bold me &lt;/b></string>

code

String.format(res.getString(R.my_text.welcome_messages), "I WILL BE BOLDED");