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A context aware string abstraction for Android

 

The Java String type
textView.setText("string")

The Android String resource
textView.setText(R.string.resource)

The magic involved here is that these methods just wrap the context.getString(stringRes) method to create the CharSequence to provide to the original method.

 

data class ErrorMessage(
    @StringRes val messageId: Int = 0,
    val message: String? = null,
)

fun ErrorMessage.getMessage(context: Context) =
    message ?: context.getString(messageId)

To support formatting argument or quantities, the entity could be extended further. Alternatively it would be possible to provide a sealed class to handle all the different use-cases here depending on the actual implementation.

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The Android String type
textView.setText("value".asAString())
textView.setText(StringResource(R.string.value))

The AString interface is defined to be extensible, so that it’s also possible to encapsulate formatting logic and small conversions or access information directly from the Context provided to the function.

@Parcelize
data class LocalDateFormatAString(
    private val date: LocalDate,
    private val pattern: String,
) : AString {
    override fun invoke(context: Context) =
        date.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(pattern))
}
@Parcelize
object LocaleAString : AString {
    override fun invoke(context: Context) =
        context.resources.configuration.locales[0].toString()
}

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