Insert & Symbol in Textview android:text

Question

How can I insert & Symbol in <TextView>
I have tried with & and Hex code but not allow me to do this.

<TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="#49515F"
    android:text="Mission and Philosophy" // & 
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:textSize="11dp" 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" />

Answer 1

I know if you externalize the string to string.xml you can definitely use & to achieve the desired result. The same should work inline.

 <TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:textColor="#49515F"
                  android:text="Mission &amp; Philosophy" 
                  android:textStyle="bold"
                  android:textSize="11dp" 
                  android:layout_width="wrap_content" />

or

 <TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:textColor="#49515F"
                  android:text="@string/mission_philosophy" 
                  android:textStyle="bold"
                  android:textSize="11dp" 
                  android:layout_width="wrap_content" />

Then in strings.xml or really any xml file under res\values folder do:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="mission_philosophy">Mission &amp; Philosophy</string>
</resources>

The second approach is more desirable because if you never need to localize the app, all your strings will be in one xml file.