Format an array of strings with arguments

Question

I'd like to format an array of strings just like android used to format strings:

Usually we do:

• strings.xml

  <string name="welcome_messages">Hello, %1$s! You have %2$d new messages.</string>
  

• In some java code:

  Resources res = getResources();
  String text = String.format(res.getString(R.string.welcome_messages), username, mailCount);
  

I'm looking for something like:

• in some arbitrary xml:

      <string-array name="employee">
          <item>name: %1$s</item>
          <item>post: %2$s</item>
      </string-array>
  

• in some java code:

  Resources res = getResources();
  String[] employee = ArrayString.format(res.getStringArray(R.string.employee), name, post);
  

Is there an elegant way to do that?

EDIT:

The next pieces of code is a workaround and I'm posting it just to help @Sufian, who asked for it in a comment. It's not a real answer once my question is about format the string array's content and the bellow code is formatting each string separately.

In some misc.xml:

<string-array
    name="string_array">
    <item>1st position: %1$d</item>
    <item>2nd position: %1$d</item>
</string-array>

Then, in java code:

res = getResources();
String[] sa = res.getStringArray(R.array.string_array);
for (int i = 0; i < sa.length; i++ ) {
    text += String.format(sa[i], i);
}

Answer 1

Just use:

String text = String.format(res.getStringArray(R.array.myStringArray)[index], param1, param2);