Can we use & in a project name in Android Studio

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I made a project named "App37_Gallery&_ScrollView" in Android Studio, although the IDE didn't raise any error, I am unable to RUN it i.e. the won't install on the emulator and IDE says to try to uninstall and then re-install the app.

Could this problem occurred because of that '&' in Project name(Root folder's name not app_name)?

@Rasi Yes, I did try to run it on my phone, but same problem — Ekamjit Singh, Jul 24 '17 at 19:16
@cricket_007 How is my ques similar to that other one? He asking about using & in xml file while my ques is about the **Project Name** the we give while creating any new one in Android Studio ( and apparently is the name of _ROOT_ folder of that project). — Ekamjit Singh, Jul 24 '17 at 19:22
@cricket_007 Hope you remove the **Duplicate** tag from the ques — Ekamjit Singh, Jul 24 '17 at 19:34
Your `app_name` string is the Project name by default, so I assumed that is what you meant. — OneCricketeer, Jul 24 '17 at 19:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 24 '17 at 18:56

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Ampersand is not allowed in project names. Use \u0026 (Unicode definition) or & if you really need it:

<string name = "app_name>App37_Gallery&amp;ScrollView</string>

edited Jul 24 '17 at 18:56

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Although `&` also has `&` in it :) – OneCricketeer Jul 24 '17 at 18:56
_&_ was already written in strings.xml (maybe the IDE added it automatically), but the app is still not running. – Ekamjit Singh Jul 24 '17 at 19:27

Can we use & in a project name in Android Studio

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