Load from string.xml resources files depending on gender in android

Question

I am working on application where themes and strings differs when user is male or female. I could control colors depending on user gender but now i can't solve problem of strings for example if user is a male, I will use

<string name="welcome">Welcome boy</string>

but if user female it will be

<string name="welcome">Welcome girl</string>

that is just for example.so how can i load the correct file from resources depending on gender value which is stored in variable ??

Answer 1

There's no direct support for what you are looking for in the plaform, so you need to write the logic yourself and have two strings per entry (i.e. welcome_m for males and welcome_f for females). But you need to set it on your widgets from code depending of who is using your app.

Answer 2

Define array for gender-specific expressions, for example:

<string-array name="welcome">
    <item>Welcome Boy</item>
    <item>Welcome Girl</item>
</string-array>

Define for yourself the [0] item is male and [1] is female