String error “constant string too long”

Question

There is a 100,000-character text that need to be displayed. If I put it into String object, I get an error \"constant string too long\". The same is with StringBuffer object.

Answer 1

Strings Longer than 64k are not allowed to be used directly in java, but you can use them indirectly.

• Step 1) click on your string
• Step 2) press Alt + Enter keys together
• Step 3) Select Extract String resource
• Step 4) Name the resource and hit enter key.

That is it. It will generate a string for you in strings.xml If you already have string in your strings.xml you can use this code to retrieve it:

String yourStr = getString(R.string.sampleBigString);