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I have my primary string resource file for android, and it is quite full (with no end in sight). So, I was hoping to do some house cleaning and move some string into their own resource file. Is this possible?

I know that one can have something like string-en or string-de, but is it possible to maybe have a resource file such as string-errors?

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Apparently so. I just took a small app of mine, created a new XML file, values/labels.xml, and moved some of my string resources from values/strings.xml into it. I made no other changes to the app; it still worked fine.

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    As long as the strings in the new file are still defined using the <string> xml tags, you can have as many resource files as you want. You still reference them in the same way as before, with R.string.string_name
    – theisenp
    Commented Sep 23, 2011 at 15:53
  • Yup, I made no other changes, so it still had to be referenced the same way. Thanks to theisenp for clarifying.
    – David Conrad
    Commented Sep 23, 2011 at 16:34

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