How to make a dialog with content from a string?

Question

Is it possible to make a dialog with content from a string defined in your OnCreate? Because the only way to define the content of the dialog, which I could find, is with text or a string defined in values/strings.xml like this:

builder.setMessage(R.string.dialog_fire_missiles)

I hope there is someone who can help me, please tell me if my question is clear enough.

Answer 1

use getString method of Context to get String from strings.xml:

builder.setMessage(Your_Activity.this.getString(R.string.dialog_fire_missiles))

Answer 2

Just use:

builder.setMessage("Your Message")

There are two setMessage() methods, one for accepting a CharSequence, and one for accepting an R.string.*.