Reference string resource from code

Question

I have the following string declared in strings.xml:

<string name="last_msg">Your last click was on</string>

Now when someone clicks a button, I want a textview to show this string, with a space, then a variable value that is a timestamp.

Unfortunately, using @string/last_msg isn't working, and I'm not sure how to do this properly so I'm not hardcoding in content.

Here's my code for the onClick function:

public void showMsgNow(View view) {
    TextView lastMsg = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView2);
    long currentTimeStamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
    lastMsg.setText(@string/last_msg + " " + currentTimeStamp);
}

I'm a newbie, any help would be great !

Answer 1

I found the answer on Google:

getString(R.string.last_msg)