Android, string resource not found

Question

I'm working on an App, and I am getting weired errors. I put in some String resource in res/values/strings and saved it. Now If I want to access it in an Activity I get an error like this

07-13 11:16:20.050: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5883): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: String resource ID #0x7f060006

And I can't figure out why. Resource looks like this:

<string name="dialog_download_text">please wait while downloading</string>

and I want to Access it like

public void onCreate(Bundle b){
    super.onCreate(b);
    String s = getResources().getString(R.string.dialog_download_text);
}

I also looked into R.java and found my Entry

public static final class string {
    public static final int dialog_download_cancel=0x7f060005;
    public static final int dialog_download_text=0x7f060007;
    public static final int dialog_download_title=0x7f060006;
}

I don't know what to do, because I never had a problem like this before. Please help me. Thanks all.

Solution 1

Sometimes I get this error (once every 2 days), and it's because eclipse is not compiling the new code and it's deploying the old apk. I fix this by

• doing a clean on eclipse (Project -> clean)
• closing the emulator
• restarting the adb server by running adb kill-server and adb start-server from the command line

Solution 2

what i had was

import android.R;

instead of

import com.example.project.R;

android.R does not have your resources it only has the general android resources.

Solution 3

Most likely there's an extra import android.R; Then your string can't be found there. Otherwise, clean the project and rebuild it, try again, then report back.