How to access values from Android "strings.xml" in Kotlin

How can I access values from the Android **strings.xml** using Kotlin?

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), View.OnClickListener {
override fun onClick(p0: View?) {
getToastCalled("")
TODO("not implemented")
}

private fun getToastCalled(message: String) {
TODO("not implemented")
}

var btn: Button? = null;

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
var tv_name=findViewById(R.id.tv) as TextView
btn=findViewById(R.id.button) as Button
tv_name.setText(KtTest().name);
(btn as Button).setOnClickListener(MainActivity@this)
}
}

If you need to access the entire array:

val data= resources.getStringArray(R.array.array_id)

Use the format - R.string.string_name

Reference it explicitly for example:

R.string.loadingText,

Given your XML file has the following as part of the resources:

<string name="loadingText">The actual text to be displayed</string>

Accessing string values in Kotlin works exactly the same as it does in Java, just with Kotlin syntax:

val string: String = getString(R.string.your_string_id)

(This assumes that your code is inside an Android `Activity`, or a similar class that inherits from `Context`. If not, you need to get a `Context` instance from somewhere, and change it to `myContext.getString(...)`.)

If it helps this is how I did it - you need the application context and also to import the R Class

applicationContext.getString(R.string.text_string)
import com.example.yourpackagename.R

I used it for titlebar, but my app crashed.

```kotlin
private var title: String = getString(R.string.profile)
```

You can access string values simply through - `"@string/variable_name"`.

For instance - if strings.xml contains entry like `<string name="app_name">Tip Time</string>`, then you can access it using -

"@string/app_name"

To use strings.xml in my code I do the following:
`textView.text = "${getString(R.string.my_text)}"`

if you're accessing it outside oncreate then

```
Resources.getSystem().getString(R.string.btn_yes)
```

[@Robin's answer][1] almost worked for me, but if I don't add `this.resources` before the `getString(R.string.tv)` my app just keeps crashing.

So to access a string value from within the ***strings.xml*** file in ***Kotlin*** use:
`this.resources.getString(R.string.tv)`

Or simply:
`resources.getString(R.string.tv)`


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