Android Gradle plugin 3.0 and above

The library doesn't work with Android gradle plugin version 3.0 and above because the new version of the plugin uses aapt2 which packs resources into .flat binary format, so packed resources are unavailable for the library. As a temporary solution you can disable aapt2 by setting android.enableAapt2=false in your gradle.properties file.

Description

The plugin allows you to refer one string from another. The plugin located on Gradle plugin portal.

Integration

Just add the next code into you app or library module level build.gradle

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "gradle.plugin.android-text-resolver:buildSrc:1.2.0"
  }
}

apply plugin: "com.icesmith.androidtextresolver"

Usage

Use {{string_id}} syntax to refer strings. For example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="super">Super</string>
    <string name="app_name">My {{super}} App</string>
    <string name="app_description">Name of my application is: {{app_name}}</string>
</resources>

Configuration

You can configure pattern, which will be used to find string references, for example, to use [] instead of {{}} add next code into your build.gradle

android {
  textresolver {
    pattern = /\[(.*?)\]/
  }
}

Sources

The plugin code can be found here