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this is my array.xml file in 'res/values' folder

<resources>
    <string-array name="updateInterval">
           <item name="1000">Pico TTS</item>
          <item name="5000">Invox TTs</item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

I need to some more items to the 'updateInterval' array lsit. Please help me in this. how can I add the items that are dynamic coming from server programmatically.

Thanks in advance, Bharath Gangupalli

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Sorry but you can't do this. You can load your array of strings at runtime and add to the array "in-memory" but you can't save them back to the strings.xml file. BTW, consider improving your accept rate - you've asked 23 questions, had answers to 17 of them but only accepted 2. – Squonk Jan 10 '12 at 6:54
...and one more thought. Consider maintaining a SQLite DB with new data coming from the server instead of a string array. – Squonk Jan 10 '12 at 6:56

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You can't add item directly to that string array.

But you can use that array and dynamically add elements to that string array.

Do in this way.

    String[] array = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.updateInterval);
    System.out.println("--array.length--"+array.length);
    List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
    list = Arrays.asList(array);
    ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<String>(list);
    arrayList.add("TTS");
    array = arrayList.toArray(new String[list.size()]);
    System.out.println("--array.length--"+array.length);
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how does this add an item to "undateInterval" ? – GMT Dec 5 '12 at 6:46
He is showing you to create a new array based on the old one, then you can add things to it via the ArrayList and Array types. – Silas Greenback Jan 30 at 19:45
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It is not possible to edit an xml resource dynamically, you just can have an static arraylist in case you need some data at runtime plus xml data.

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