Error in strings.xml file in Android

Question

I have declared a long string in string.xml of an application.

Declared like this

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Answer 1

You have to put \ before an apostrophe. Like this \' , Also check that you are editing strings.xml and not values.xml (android studio directs you to this file when shows the error). Because if you edit values.xml and try to compile again, the error persists. This was happening to me recently.