title: Can one combine android resource strings into new strings?
body: <p>Android allows to create aliases of resource strings like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
   &lt;string name="foo"&gt;somestring&lt;/string&gt;
   &lt;string name="bar"&gt;@string/foo&lt;/string&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>by which the resource "bar" becomes an alias for the resource named "foo".</p>
  
  <p>What I would for my app is a possibility to combine an existing resource prefix with different suffixes, i.e. to extend it like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
   &lt;string name="foo"&gt;foo&lt;/string&gt;
   &lt;string name="bar"&gt;@string/foo+bar&lt;/string&gt; 
   &lt;string name="else"&gt;@string/foo+else&lt;/string&gt; 
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>where the resource "bar" would yield the string "foobar". Its clear that '+' doesn't work here but is there some other option to achieve such a string concatenation, so that one could define a bunch of string resources that have a common prefix?</p>
  
  <p>I realize of course that I could do such resource string concatenation at runtime but defining them statically in the resources would seem so much more elegant and simpler.</p>
  
  <p>Michael</p>