escaping special characters like & in android xml

Question

<string name="app_name">something & something</string> 

gives an error. How can i escape this?

Is this correct

<string name="app_name">something &amp; something</string>

or is there a better way?

Answer 1

Try reading this page: http://www.xmlnews.org/docs/xml-basics.html it looks like it contains the answer you are looking for.

In summary, here is the list of escaped characters and the escape code

Character  Predeclared Entity
&          &
<          &lt;
>          &gt;
"          &quot;
'          &apos;

Referenced from the link.