How to add a line break in an Android TextView?

ok figured it out:

<string name="sample_string"><![CDATA[some test line 1 <br />some test line 2]]></string>

so wrap in CDATA is necessary and breaks added inside as html tags

Android version 1.6 does not recognize \r\n. Instead, use: System.getProperty("line.separator")

String s = "Line 1"
           + System.getProperty("line.separator")
           + "Line 2"
           + System.getProperty("line.separator");

\n works for me, like this:

<TextView android:text="First line\nNext line"

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