Using an @ symbol in strings.xml

Question

How would one use an @ symbol inside a string in strings.xml?

<string name="twitter">@npike</string>

The XML editor gets rather angry:

error: Error: No resource type specified (at 'twitter' with value '@npike').

Answer 1

I would suggest use unicode like \u0040 instead of '@' symbol. XML processing doesn't like special symbols. Here is list of special characters and it's unicode valuesSpecial characters and unicode values

Answer 2

Use this instead :

<string name="twitter">\@npike</string>