For some reason in my `Service` I'm unable to get a `String` from resources, tried in `onStartComman...

# android

[luke]

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?

[Tim Malseed]

What does your code look like?

[luke]

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

[luke]

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

[Tim Malseed]

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

[luke]

Sorry, should have been clearer, getting an exception.

[Tim Malseed]

You are calling getStringArray() , which returns an Array<String>

[luke]

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[luke]

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

[luke]

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

[luke]

Tried cleaning, invalidating cache, uninstalling.

[luke]

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

[Tim Malseed]

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

[Tim Malseed]

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

[Tim Malseed]

Or is it importing android.R?

[luke]

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

[Tim Malseed]

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

[luke]

Yeah.

[luke]

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

[luke]

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

[Tim Malseed]

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.

[luke]

Yeah, totally at a loss here.

[Jiri Bruchanov]

@luke 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"