Trying to use <!ENTITY in ANDROID resources with error: “The entity was referenced, but not declared.”

Question

I\'m following this solution to use enetities in my string resource file:

Is it possible to do string substitution in Android resource XML files directly?

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Answer 1

Alternatively, if you still prefer avoiding resolving placeholders on Java/Kotlin and rather get them resolved in the XML files, then you could use this small library I created: https://github.com/LikeTheSalad/android-string-reference which will allow you to do something like this:

    MyDeviceName
    The name is ${devicename}

And then, you make/build the project, and a new file will be generated with:

    The name is MyDeviceName

More info on the repo provided above.