Android activity name defined in Manifest.xml

Question

I have an Activity defined in my manifest as:

<activity
android:name=".userhistory.UserHistory"
android:configChanges="orientation"
android:launchMode="singleTop"
android:label="User History">
</activity>

Now i want to get the value of the label attribute from within my activity code.

Is there any way i can do this ?

Answer 1

"Pseudo"-code:

PackageManager PM = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager();
PackageInfo PI = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0);
String strLabel = PI.applicationInfo.loadLabel(PM).toString();

strLabel will contain the value in android:label from your AndroidManifest.xml .

Answer 2

use string.xml to save your all string like following

<resources>
<string name="activity_name">User History</string>
</resources>

then use it any where in your other xml like this

.android:label="@string/activity_name"

and you can use it in activity like this

 String activityname= getString(R.string.activity_name);