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I saw this post that says when the strings.xml is to big the app is crashing. My strings.xml file is 700 lines right now and it will be a lot bigger in a while.



The answers in the post say that can use a sqlite db to prevent this.



But in my case i have a sqlite that takes the data for the entries from strings.xml because my app uses locale for different languages.



My question is, how big the strings.xml can be? And if i have a limitation for the lines what i can do to prevent the crash ?






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  • What did your logcat says
    – Killer
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  • as i said there is no a crash right now, but the post that i linked says if the strings.xml is to big the app will be crash. My strings.xml will be to big in a while, my question is how big can strings.xml can be ?
    – Thelouras
    5 hours ago








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    Why can't you use SQLite directly? Meaning one table for each language? Just choose the language table you need and use the strings stored inside that one.
    – Fantômas
    1 hour ago










  • @Fantômas because the app was designed from the beginning like this and we are using locale with strings resources. And it wants a lot of work to transfer all the data from strings.xml in new tables. Maybe it will be done in a future refactoring!
    – Thelouras
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I saw this post that says when the strings.xml is to big the app is crashing. My strings.xml file is 700 lines right now and it will be a lot bigger in a while.



The answers in the post say that can use a sqlite db to prevent this.



But in my case i have a sqlite that takes the data for the entries from strings.xml because my app uses locale for different languages.



My question is, how big the strings.xml can be? And if i have a limitation for the lines what i can do to prevent the crash ?






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  • What did your logcat says
    – Killer
    5 hours ago










  • as i said there is no a crash right now, but the post that i linked says if the strings.xml is to big the app will be crash. My strings.xml will be to big in a while, my question is how big can strings.xml can be ?
    – Thelouras
    5 hours ago








  • 1




    Why can't you use SQLite directly? Meaning one table for each language? Just choose the language table you need and use the strings stored inside that one.
    – Fantômas
    1 hour ago










  • @Fantômas because the app was designed from the beginning like this and we are using locale with strings resources. And it wants a lot of work to transfer all the data from strings.xml in new tables. Maybe it will be done in a future refactoring!
    – Thelouras
    33 mins ago
















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I saw this post that says when the strings.xml is to big the app is crashing. My strings.xml file is 700 lines right now and it will be a lot bigger in a while.



The answers in the post say that can use a sqlite db to prevent this.



But in my case i have a sqlite that takes the data for the entries from strings.xml because my app uses locale for different languages.



My question is, how big the strings.xml can be? And if i have a limitation for the lines what i can do to prevent the crash ?






android android-resources







share|improve this question















I saw this post that says when the strings.xml is to big the app is crashing. My strings.xml file is 700 lines right now and it will be a lot bigger in a while.



The answers in the post say that can use a sqlite db to prevent this.



But in my case i have a sqlite that takes the data for the entries from strings.xml because my app uses locale for different languages.



My question is, how big the strings.xml can be? And if i have a limitation for the lines what i can do to prevent the crash ?






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  • What did your logcat says
    – Killer
    5 hours ago










  • as i said there is no a crash right now, but the post that i linked says if the strings.xml is to big the app will be crash. My strings.xml will be to big in a while, my question is how big can strings.xml can be ?
    – Thelouras
    5 hours ago








  • 1




    Why can't you use SQLite directly? Meaning one table for each language? Just choose the language table you need and use the strings stored inside that one.
    – Fantômas
    1 hour ago










  • @Fantômas because the app was designed from the beginning like this and we are using locale with strings resources. And it wants a lot of work to transfer all the data from strings.xml in new tables. Maybe it will be done in a future refactoring!
    – Thelouras
    33 mins ago




















  • What did your logcat says
    – Killer
    5 hours ago










  • as i said there is no a crash right now, but the post that i linked says if the strings.xml is to big the app will be crash. My strings.xml will be to big in a while, my question is how big can strings.xml can be ?
    – Thelouras
    5 hours ago








  • 1




    Why can't you use SQLite directly? Meaning one table for each language? Just choose the language table you need and use the strings stored inside that one.
    – Fantômas
    1 hour ago










  • @Fantômas because the app was designed from the beginning like this and we are using locale with strings resources. And it wants a lot of work to transfer all the data from strings.xml in new tables. Maybe it will be done in a future refactoring!
    – Thelouras
    33 mins ago


















What did your logcat says
– Killer
5 hours ago




What did your logcat says
– Killer
5 hours ago












as i said there is no a crash right now, but the post that i linked says if the strings.xml is to big the app will be crash. My strings.xml will be to big in a while, my question is how big can strings.xml can be ?
– Thelouras
5 hours ago






as i said there is no a crash right now, but the post that i linked says if the strings.xml is to big the app will be crash. My strings.xml will be to big in a while, my question is how big can strings.xml can be ?
– Thelouras
5 hours ago






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Why can't you use SQLite directly? Meaning one table for each language? Just choose the language table you need and use the strings stored inside that one.
– Fantômas
1 hour ago




Why can't you use SQLite directly? Meaning one table for each language? Just choose the language table you need and use the strings stored inside that one.
– Fantômas
1 hour ago












@Fantômas because the app was designed from the beginning like this and we are using locale with strings resources. And it wants a lot of work to transfer all the data from strings.xml in new tables. Maybe it will be done in a future refactoring!
– Thelouras
33 mins ago






@Fantômas because the app was designed from the beginning like this and we are using locale with strings resources. And it wants a lot of work to transfer all the data from strings.xml in new tables. Maybe it will be done in a future refactoring!
– Thelouras
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There is no limitation of the strings.xml. Its more a problem of loading a string array. The getResources().getStringArray function is not meant to load arrays with more elements than 512 (more about this here Should I be using something other than getResource().getStringArray() to populate a large array?) But as long as you are not using big arrays you should be fine.






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    The Resources.get*** methods doesn't have any explicit limitation, so it depends on your device's memory size. And as I know the old version of Android has per process memory limitation.






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    • So that is not about how big strings.xml is ? but about the Resources.get*** method ?
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    • Beacause my strings.xml file will be 1000+ lines. It is not a problem ?
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      Because you read strings.xml with Resources' methods. 1000+ lines in an xml file is not extravagant. You just need to take care of the memory usage.
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    There is no limitation of the strings.xml. Its more a problem of loading a string array. The getResources().getStringArray function is not meant to load arrays with more elements than 512 (more about this here Should I be using something other than getResource().getStringArray() to populate a large array?) But as long as you are not using big arrays you should be fine.






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      There is no limitation of the strings.xml. Its more a problem of loading a string array. The getResources().getStringArray function is not meant to load arrays with more elements than 512 (more about this here Should I be using something other than getResource().getStringArray() to populate a large array?) But as long as you are not using big arrays you should be fine.






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        There is no limitation of the strings.xml. Its more a problem of loading a string array. The getResources().getStringArray function is not meant to load arrays with more elements than 512 (more about this here Should I be using something other than getResource().getStringArray() to populate a large array?) But as long as you are not using big arrays you should be fine.






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        There is no limitation of the strings.xml. Its more a problem of loading a string array. The getResources().getStringArray function is not meant to load arrays with more elements than 512 (more about this here Should I be using something other than getResource().getStringArray() to populate a large array?) But as long as you are not using big arrays you should be fine.







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            The Resources.get*** methods doesn't have any explicit limitation, so it depends on your device's memory size. And as I know the old version of Android has per process memory limitation.






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            • So that is not about how big strings.xml is ? but about the Resources.get*** method ?
              – Thelouras
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            • Beacause my strings.xml file will be 1000+ lines. It is not a problem ?
              – Thelouras
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              Because you read strings.xml with Resources' methods. 1000+ lines in an xml file is not extravagant. You just need to take care of the memory usage.
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            The Resources.get*** methods doesn't have any explicit limitation, so it depends on your device's memory size. And as I know the old version of Android has per process memory limitation.






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            • So that is not about how big strings.xml is ? but about the Resources.get*** method ?
              – Thelouras
              4 hours ago










            • Beacause my strings.xml file will be 1000+ lines. It is not a problem ?
              – Thelouras
              4 hours ago








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              Because you read strings.xml with Resources' methods. 1000+ lines in an xml file is not extravagant. You just need to take care of the memory usage.
              – shingo
              2 hours ago














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            The Resources.get*** methods doesn't have any explicit limitation, so it depends on your device's memory size. And as I know the old version of Android has per process memory limitation.






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            The Resources.get*** methods doesn't have any explicit limitation, so it depends on your device's memory size. And as I know the old version of Android has per process memory limitation.







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            • So that is not about how big strings.xml is ? but about the Resources.get*** method ?
              – Thelouras
              4 hours ago










            • Beacause my strings.xml file will be 1000+ lines. It is not a problem ?
              – Thelouras
              4 hours ago








            • 1




              Because you read strings.xml with Resources' methods. 1000+ lines in an xml file is not extravagant. You just need to take care of the memory usage.
              – shingo
              2 hours ago


















            • So that is not about how big strings.xml is ? but about the Resources.get*** method ?
              – Thelouras
              4 hours ago










            • Beacause my strings.xml file will be 1000+ lines. It is not a problem ?
              – Thelouras
              4 hours ago








            • 1




              Because you read strings.xml with Resources' methods. 1000+ lines in an xml file is not extravagant. You just need to take care of the memory usage.
              – shingo
              2 hours ago
















            So that is not about how big strings.xml is ? but about the Resources.get*** method ?
            – Thelouras
            4 hours ago




            So that is not about how big strings.xml is ? but about the Resources.get*** method ?
            – Thelouras
            4 hours ago












            Beacause my strings.xml file will be 1000+ lines. It is not a problem ?
            – Thelouras
            4 hours ago






            Beacause my strings.xml file will be 1000+ lines. It is not a problem ?
            – Thelouras
            4 hours ago






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            Because you read strings.xml with Resources' methods. 1000+ lines in an xml file is not extravagant. You just need to take care of the memory usage.
            – shingo
            2 hours ago




            Because you read strings.xml with Resources' methods. 1000+ lines in an xml file is not extravagant. You just need to take care of the memory usage.
            – shingo
            2 hours ago


















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