Question

I have a textView and I am pasting s string as it’s text and in which I have some “double quote characters” How can I escape these characters.

Answer 1

Backslashing double quotes will not work in a XML layout. You should use the HTML-code (quot), like this:

<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:text="Here goes my &quot;escaped&quot; text!" />

The above code will display a TextView containing:

Here goes my “escaped” text!

XML has 5 of these predifined entities:

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