android - How to display double quotes(") Symbol in a TextView?

Question

I'm trying to display some words in double quotes, in Text view in in xml file. But its not working. Pls help me.

    <TextView 
    style="@style/TextStyle" 
    android:text="message "quote string 1" and "quote string 2" end message" 
    android:id="@+id/lblAboutPara3" 
    android:autoLink="web"/>    

Any one knows solution for this.............

Answer 1

In the strings.xml, you can simply escape special characters (eg double quotes) with a backslash :

"message "quote string 1" and "quote string 2" end message"

But in views xml (eg layout.xml), you have to use HTML character entities (like ") :

"message "quote string 1" and "quote string 2" end message"

For more, visit http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html