{"id":40,"date":"2014-02-22T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2017-03-06T22:13:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:13:30","slug":"write-ampersand-character-android-string-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/development\/java-android\/write-ampersand-character-android-string-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write & (ampersand) character in Android string resource"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because ampersand or & character break the xml validation in Android string.xml file if you need to insert a text with ampersand you have to encode it like in HTML encode.<\/p>\n

 \r\n\r\n<string name="mystring">This is my test & example<\/string> <!-- this is not ok -->\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
correct wayWatch movie online Get Out (2017)<\/a>Watch movie online The Lego Batman Movie (2017)<\/a><\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n<string name="mystring">This is my test &amp; example<\/string> <!-- this is not ok -->\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Because ampersand or & character break the xml validation in Android string.xml file if you need to insert a text with ampersand you have to encode it like in HTML encode. <string name="mystring">This is my test & example<\/string> <!– this is not ok –> correct wayWatch movie online Get Out (2017)Watch movie online The Lego […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[48,21,49,50],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java-android","tag-ampersand","tag-android-2","tag-string","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.nisi.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}