Android: How store url in string.xml resource file?

Question

I'm trying to store a fully qualified url, with also query params:

www.miosito.net?prova&reg=bis

but it's causing a problem because &reg is similar to ® entity and android tell me that and html entity is not well written.

I need this because every locale uses a fully different set of url query param.

I tried with [[CDATA[.. ]] but this syntax disliked by xml parser.

Answer 1

The problem is not with &req but with & itself. For XML/HTML you would have to use & entity (or &), but for URLs you should rather URL-encode (see docs) strings, and in that case said & should be replaced with %26. So your final string should look like:

www.miosito.net?prova%26reg=bis

Answer 2

Store it like this:

<string name="my_url">"www.miosito.net?prova&amp;reg=bis"</string>

Where & is the XML equivelant of the ampersand symbol &.