Question

How do you use the @ as text in an Android XML file, as it has special meaning? I have a TextView which will simply hold the text @

I tried:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/at_text"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/account_name"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:padding="3dip"
    android:text="@" />

That of course did not work with the error

error: Error: No resource type specified (at ‘text’ with value ‘@’).

So I tried pointing it to an entry in strings.xml like this:
<string name="at">@</string> and that shows the error:

error: Error: No resource type specified (at ‘at’ with value ‘@’).

So how do I escape @ as the text for a TextView?

Answer 1

use this way …………..

 <string name="at">\@</string>