Android string values formatting -

Android string values formatting -

my name <b>%1$s</b> <string name="funky_format">my name &lt;b&gt;%1$s&lt;/b&gt;</string>

what lastly formatting mean?

the reason string looks funky it's doing both formatting , html. here's description of documentation, states:

sometimes may want create styled text resource used format string. normally, won't work because string.format(string, object...) method strip style info string. work-around write html tags escaped entities.

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