Apostrophe not preceded by \\

Issue

I have a string resource value like this:

<string name="you_sure">Are you sure you want to do this?\n(It can't be recovered.)</string>

When build my android project, I constantly get the error:

Error:(377) Apostrophe not preceded by \ (in Are you sure you want to do this?\n(It can't be recovered.))

Why?

Solution

Because you have an apostrophe (the ' in "can't"), and those need to be escaped as \'. The same holds true for quotes (\").

Answered By - CommonsWare