Mono for Android: Read string resource value from code

For an Android application we are building, we added some string values to our /resources/values/strings XML file. Mono for Android detects this and generates a strongly typed value in a designer class.

	public partial class String
	{
	// aapt resource value: 0x7f070001
	public const int ApplicationName = 2131165185;
	// aapt resource value: 0x7f07000f
	public const int DataLoadingError = 2131165199;
	// aapt resource value: 0x7f07000e
	public const int ImageLoadingError = 2131165198;
	// aapt resource value: 0x7f07000d
	public const int UnexpectedError = 2131165197;
	private String()
	{
	}
	}

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	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<resources>
	<string name="ApplicationName">My Android App</string>
	<string name="UnexpectedError">Unexpected Error</string>
	<string name="ImageLoadingError">Failed to load image</string>
	<string name="DataLoadingError">Failed to load data</string>
	</resources>

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The only problem is that the generated value is an integer, not the string value itself. So how can we get access to the string resource?

string applicationName = Resources.GetString(Resource.String.ApplicationName);

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