2021-02-08-Android-hard-space

I wanted to keep spaces as prefix and suffix to my app name.

Here is what string value looked like earlier.

<string name="app_name"> My App Name </string>

Unfortunately, strings get trimmed automatically. So, what do we do to keep the space by force?

A simple solution would injecting  .

Here is how string value would look like after it.

<string name="app_name">&#160;My App Name&#160;</string>