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In my Android app I have a lot of strings in strings.xml that never get used because I removed the code modules that referenced them. Is there an automatic way in Eclipse or using some other tool that will remove those strings?
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Definition of String in XML. XML Schema defines in a way what an XML document contains, therefore, XSD defines the string so, it can be defined as a value that contains character strings also has Unicode character given by XML and represented using the type xs: string, while this type has a white space character and maintained by ...
Clean strings.xml file helps to easily maintain and translate strings to different languages — screen after screen. If you want you can create strings.xml file per screen — settings-strings.xml, profile-strings.xml.
Unfortunately, StackOverflow was unable to help my for that, since I only found questions (and answers) related to stripping/removing non-UTF8 characters: close, yet still not enough for what I need, since there are a lot of legitimate UTF8 characters that might cause issues within a XML file.
How to Initialize String in XML? A string is initialized in the Element name with the type ‘string’. For example: It returns the string in the element name, if it is an integer then it returns a value. If the type doesn’t have any content then it could be declared as a string, not as any data types.
for i in $(lint . | grep 'The resource R.string.* appears to be unused' | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /R.string.(.*) appears/'); do perl -pi -e 's/.*<string name="'$i'".*\n//' res/values*/strings.xml; done
Android Lint can do it for you. Try: Right clic on your project > Android Tools > Run Lint: Check for Common Errors. Depending on your Lint settings, the unused strings will be shown.
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