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For some reason in my `Service` I'm unable to get a `String` from resources, tried in `onStartCommand()` `onCreate()` and `onDestroy()`, does anyone have any ideas?

```override fun onStartCommand(intent: Intent?, flags: Int, startId: Int): Int {     this.resources.getStringArray(R.array.permissions)
return START_NOT_STICKY
}```

I've even tried gettting `R.string.app_name` and that fails too.

And what do you mean by ‘I’m unable to get a string’?

Sorry, should have been clearer, getting an exception.

You are calling `getStringArray()` , which returns an `Array&lt;String&gt;`

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Strange thing is, I've created a separate project and still having this issue.

Yeah, my original implementation was the array, but I simplified it for just a string and having the same issue.

Tried cleaning, invalidating cache, uninstalling.

OK, so when I use the int values, it seems to work:

I wonder if it’s using the wrong `R.*` import

Look at your imports, when you use `R.string.app_name`, is it importing `com.mypackage.R` ?

That's what I thought too, but it's importing my package's R

Hmm. I really don’t have any other ideas. So, you’re getting the same problem in a separate project?

What's interesting here though is that the Resource ID in the evaluator is different fom the generated R

I'm going to restart the computer, just to be safe.

if `context.resources.getString(R.string.app_name)` fails in a fresh project, then I would say there’s something wrong with the IDE or gradle.

<@UC5RQFEDV> already seen this issue, in my case it was because if different value of R.id.myvalue in runtime and in evaluate window.
Not sure why is this happening, but I guess it's related with AGP resource merging (in case multimodule project) and AS evaluate window sees your module resId value instead of the app's one
• in my case the code was working fine, only the eval window was "crashing"