<property>

syntax:

<propertyandroid:name="string"
android:resource="resourcespecification"
android:value="string"/>

contained in:

<activity>
<activity-alias>
<application>
<provider>
<receiver>
<service>

description:

A name-value pair for an item of additional, arbitrary data that can be supplied to the parent component. A component element can contain any number of <property> subelements. Valid names include any of the property constants defined in the PackageManager class, PackageManager.Property tags defined in classes such as WindowProperties , and arbitrary constants defined ad hoc. Obtain values individually using the


PackageManager.getProperty()

method.

Specify ordinary values with the android:value attribute. Specify resource IDs with the android:resource attribute. Specifying both android:value and android:resource is invalid.

For example, the following code assigns whatever value is stored in the @string/kangaroo resource to the zoo name:

<propertyandroid:name="zoo"android:value="@string/kangaroo"/>

The code here, however, assigns the numeric ID of the resource, not the value stored in the resource, to zoo:

<propertyandroid:name="zoo"android:resource="@string/kangaroo"/>

attributes:

android:name

The name of the property. A parsing error results if multiple, sibling <property> tags have the same name.

android:resource

A reference to a resource. The ID of the resource is the value assigned to the property. The ID can be retrieved from the property by


PackageManager.Property.getResourceId()

android:value

A value assigned to the property. The following table lists valid data types and accessor methods for the value attribute:

Type	PackageManager.Property accessor
String: Use double backslashes (\\) to escape characters; for example, `\\n` and `\\uxxxxx` for a Unicode character	`getString()`
Integer: For example, `100`	`getInteger()`
Boolean: Either `true` or `false`	`getBoolean()`
Color: In the form `#rgb`, `#argb`, `#rrggbb`, or `#aarrggbb`	`getInteger()`
Float: For example, `1.23`	`getFloat()`

Note: A <property> tag should not contain both android:value and android:resource attributes. If that happens, android:resource is preferred.

introduced in:

API Level 31

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