How to add < and> in android strings.xml

Question

I need to add in strings.xml. What is the escape sequence in order to do that? The string to

Answer 1

The Android string.xml file is just a regular XML file, so you can use the XML escape characters:

"   "
'   '
<   <
>   >
&   &

Your example would become <Given Name>

UPDATE: Furthermore you can use the HTML entities of each character, a blank space is for example , and a non-breaking space is  .

Note that I am not entirely sure whether this is officially supported by the XML standards, or that it 'just works'...