How to add < and > in android strings.xml

Question

I need to add <string name="name_hint"><Given Name></string> in strings.xml. What is the escape sequence in order to do that? The string to be added is <Given Name>

Answer 1

The Android string.xml file is just a regular XML file, so you can use the XML escape characters:

"   "
'   '
<   &lt;
>   &gt;
&   &amp;

Your example would become <string name="name_hint">&lt;Given Name&gt;</string>

UPDATE: Furthermore you can use the HTML entities of each character, a blank space is for example  , and a non-breaking space is  .

Note that I am not entirely sure whether this is officially supported by the XML standards, or that it 'just works'...

Answer 2

Use < for less than symbol and > for greater than symbol. so here you need to replace like:

<string name="name_hint">&lt;Given Name&gt;</string>