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    copied!<p>I'm trying to use formatted html inside <em>strings.xml</em>. So in <em>strings.xml</em> I have following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;string name="application_start_message" formatted="false"&gt; &lt;![CDATA[ bla bla bla %1$ bla bla bla %1$.... ]]&gt; &lt;string name="application_website_url"&gt;website.com&lt;/string&gt; </code></pre> <p>and later in code I do:</p> <pre><code>String string = getString( R.string.application_start_message, getString(R.string.application_website_url) ); </code></pre> <p>the runtime exception I'm getting is:</p> <pre><code>java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.artigile.checkmyphone/ com.artigile.checkmyphone.MainActivity}: java.util.UnknownFormatConversionException: Conversion: &lt; at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2211) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2261) at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1256) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5103) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:737) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) Caused by: java.util.UnknownFormatConversionException: Conversion: &lt; at java.util.Formatter$FormatToken.unknownFormatConversionException(Formatter.java:1399) at java.util.Formatter$FormatToken.checkFlags(Formatter.java:1336) at java.util.Formatter.transform(Formatter.java:1442) at java.util.Formatter.doFormat(Formatter.java:1081) at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:1042) at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:1011) at java.lang.String.format(String.java:1988) at android.content.res.Resources.getString(Resources.java:354) at android.content.Context.getString(Context.java:347) at com.artigile.checkmyphone.MainActivity.buildModalStartWarningWindow(MainActivity.java:280) at com.artigile.checkmyphone.MainActivity.onStart(MainActivity.java:116) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnStart(Instrumentation.java:1171) at android.app.Activity.performStart(Activity.java:5143) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2184) ... 11 more </code></pre> <p>Any thoughts how this can be workarounded?</p>
 

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