How can I save the value selected from a spinner that would change if the device's language change?

So this one is very difficult I guess.

I've been trying all means and all of my knowledge, so after searching all the web and this site I have to ask the question.

Here is the deal:

I have a spinner that has as values (in English) say: bees birds squirrels

In spanish the values will be:

abejas pajaros ardillas

I make sure they are the same because at runtime I construct the values going into the spinner from a file called

store.xml

<resources>
   <string name="bees">bees</string>
   <string name="birds">birds</string>
   <string name="squirrels">squirrels</string>
   <string name="other_species">other species</string>
</resources>

and under the folder values-es

store.xml

<resources>
   <string name="bees">abejas</string>
   <string name="birds">pajaros</string>
   <string name="squirrels">ardillas</string>
   <string name="other_species">otra esp开发者_StackOverflow社区ecie</string>
</resources>

The problem is that I shouldn't save the actual value selected by the user, because when they change the device's language, then the value saved it would be in a different language.

So I thought in a way of getting the unique Id of the string value selected by the user and I used res.getIdentifier to get the Id and then the name of the string resource. THEN I would save the name of the resource in the database, that way if the language changed I would be able to locate the value based on the name.

Now, res.getIdentifier worked, as long as the value was the same as the name i.e.:

  value "bees", name="bees" (works)
  value "bees", name="abejas" (don't work)
  value "other_species", name="other species" (don't work)

So is there a way that I can get to the name of a string in an xml, from the value?

Or is there another workaround this?

You could fill your spinner with ids rather than strings, and use a custom adapter to display the strings. That way the logic is language independent.

Use another array as a mapping for example:

English  Language A  
   0         2
   1         3
   2         0
   3         1