TextView throws designer error displaying string resource

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In working with a new Android project in Eclipse, with the default layout, I discovered a behavior that I'm sure is documented... somewhere... but I cannot identify where.

When the strings.xml "hello" resource contains a string that looks like this:

    <string name="hello" 
    formatted="false">@BrandingName: Branding phrase ending with @
    </string>

The Eclipse designer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBounds resolving a resource value. I presume this is because it doesn't know how to escape some part of "@BrandingName:" correctly? What would be the way to correctly display this using a TextView?

For reference the TextView node looks like this:

    <TextView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/hello" />

Andrii Y. · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-10 21:56:08Z

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Try to use entity instead of '@' - &#64

And also, if you want to have a formatting for your string, you could use CDATA like this:

<string name="hello"><![CDATA[ @BrandingName: Branding phrase ending with @ ]]></string>

answered Apr 10, 2012 at 21:56

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Tetsujin no Oni Over a year ago

<string name="hello" formatted="false">@BrandingName: Branding phrase ending with @</string> yields the same exception. The formulation with CDATA works as long as there is a space before the @. Apparently, starting a string resource with @ attempts to resolve the resource as an indirection...

Tetsujin no Oni Over a year ago

+1 for the example that got me close enough to discover the leading-@ bug (at least it looks like a bug)

Tetsujin no Oni · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 17:05:35Z

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Starting a string resource with "@" will cause errors in the designer. A leading space will prevent that error. The leading space does not appear to be rendered in the TextView.

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 17:05

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