Android market text format

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I saw some special characters used by developers in the description of their apps. How do I do that (for example show a star icon instead of *)?

Also - is it possible to show bold\italic\underlined text in the market description?

See this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11071127/google-play-app-description-formatting — Yojimbo, Sep 20 '13 at 22:50
I had the same question. Found a full list here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11071127/google-play-app-description-formatting — Etienne Juneau, Oct 15 '16 at 07:47

tacone · Answer 1 · 2012-02-05T23:58:32.800

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Just copy paste the star character into your text (it is an unicode char) and you'll be set to go.

★ <-- copy paste this

Also I noticed it supports <b> tags, which is pretty useful.

edited Feb 05 '12 at 23:58

answered Jan 16 '12 at 13:25

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '11 at 18:24

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I don't specifically what you are rerfering to. But I would imagine that you can copy any character out of character map(on windows) and paste into the description of your app on the developer console.

answered Jan 28 '11 at 18:24

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It looks like you can use a little HTML as well: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html#FormattingAndStyling – Jeremiah Willcock Jan 28 '11 at 18:28
When writing my android market description on android's developer site , I managed to insert some stars but after publishing the APP . The Stars were switchced to = signs. Maybe android does not allow special characters insertion on the descrition , but i know iphone enables this!!! – Nov 01 '11 at 14:03

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '12 at 14:27

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If all else fails, try inserting (empty) hyperlinks. Those are rendered in a slightly darker, bolder tone than the rest of the text.

answered Feb 27 '12 at 14:27

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