title: Using strings.xml w/ Android
body: <p>I've looked and tried many things but it seems my App isn't getting the values for strings in strings.xml.  It actually seems like it's passing blank.  I think there's an issue initializing.</p>
  
  <p>strings.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;string name="itb_cityID"&gt;2&lt;/string&gt;
          &lt;string name="itb_city"&gt;New York&lt;/string&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>constants.java excerpt:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class ConstantData {
  
  public static String cityID="2";
  public static String city="New York";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I set <code>cityID = R.strings.itb_cityID</code> and <code>city=itb_city</code> the correct way?</p>