A personal "why" for that is a validation module of mandatory fields on a form/view/activity. The server can send to device which fields are mandatory and a validation method can search ID names sent from server to do an automatic validation. So if 2 clients has different rules, server will say what fields must be validated. No need to be super performatic but really useful to be dynamic with a GetFieldFromID() or as I like, getElementById().
Karl From: Jonathan Pryor <j...@xamarin.com> Reply-To: "monodroid@lists.ximian.com" <monodroid@lists.ximian.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:15:43 -0400 To: "monodroid@lists.ximian.com" <monodroid@lists.ximian.com> Subject: Re: [mono-android] How to use Resources.GetIdentifier()? Why do you need to do this? > I found this method that seems to be what I need(it says I should not use > this method if possible but not sure what other method I could use then). The recommended approach would be to directly use the integer constants, which you appear to be loathe to do. The reason is probably performance, as using an integral constant ~directly is likely to be far faster than loading up whatever metadata mechanism Resources.GetIdentifier() is using.
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