German unicode letters don't show up in app

Question

I have a problem with language encoding... what i try is to incorporate a random motivational string into my app which contains German unicode letters... as far as I know, Java uses Unicode-16, but the respective letters dont show up at all when I start the app. I'm using Android Studio and the app is tested on a real device.

public class Start extends ActionBarActivity {

//This is a string array containing quotes
String[] motivational = {"Unser größter Ruhm ist nicht, niemals zu fallen, sondern jedes Mal wieder aufzustehen.\nRalph Waldo Emerson"};

public int randInt() {
    Random rand = new Random();
    return rand.nextInt((motivational.length) + 1);
}

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_start);

    //Takes a random quote from the list and sets it as a TextViews content
    TextView motivator = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.motivator);
    motivator.setText(motivational[randInt()]);
}

//rest of the class

Answer 1

Add your text to strings.xml and then use Android's getResources.getString() method to get the text

<resources>

  <string name="motivational">Unser größter Ruhm ist nicht, niemals zu fallen, sondern jedes Mal wieder aufzustehen.\nRalph Waldo Emerson</string>

</resources>

Then in your java file, use

    String motivational = getResources().getString(R.string.motivational);
    TextView motivator = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.motivator);
    motivator.setText(motivational);

Retrieving the value from strings.xml is done using

getResources().getString(R.string.motivational) 

where R.string.motivational is the unique string identifier.

Isn't this the output you are looking for?