android textview not supporting symbols

Question

<string name="feat"> * Good User Interface \n * Fast Searching \n * Text To Speech \n * Simple Interface & Offline \n * Low Memory Usage \n * Favourites option \n * Login Option \n * Social Network Link \n * Sharing Application Option </string>

this is the statement got error. The error is "The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.'

Answer 1

While the above solutions will work Another good solution can be to enclose your string resource in CDATA tag like:

<string name="feat"><![CDATA[ * Good User Interface \n * Fast Searching \n * Text To Speech \n * Simple Interface & Offline \n * Low Memory Usage \n * Favourites option \n * Login Option \n * Social Network Link \n * Sharing Application Option ]]></string>

This way it will be easy as you won't have to replace each and every & with & which is tedious task.This may work with all special characters i guess(not tested).

Answer 2

My guess is that your XML datasource contains '&' character in some data.

If so replace '&' with & and try, it should work properly.

In Additional to it, Some of other Common in xml how to escape the errors:

• ampersand (&) is escaped to &
• double quotes (") are escaped to "
• single quotes (') are escaped to '
• less than (<) is escaped to . <
• greater than (>) is escaped to . >

Answer 3

Use & in place of & symbol.