How do I insert special characters as text in XML editor for Android?

Question

So, I\'m writing an app that involves using some mathematical symbols. I\'m doing this in the visual XML editor. Is there any way I can get, say, an integral symbol, or a \"less

Answer 1

I once had to do something similar to that, putting in foreign language characters in an XML file. The best, and as far as I know, and only way is to put the text you want to show in the strings.xml file and refer to them in the XML as @string/your_text_declaration_here. It's also generally good practice to put all text in the string.xml file regardless of special characters or not.