Android Xml - How do you write '@' character in the string?

Question

I'm trying to write email address with @ character inside the xml using TextView. I tried using Unicode like someone suggested in the other post asking about '&' character. It didn't work for @. I tried

<string name="gmail">\u0040 gmail.com</string>

but that returns java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.

I also tried

<string name="gmail" formatted="false">@gmail.com</string>

but it still gives the same error.

I have no idea how to go about this problem. Please Help!!

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

<string name="gmail">\@ gmail.com</string>

@ is, of course, the way you reference identified resources (@+id\\textview) which requires escaping to use.

Pretty sure that formatted="false" does not flag Android to avoid looking up identifiers.