Showing HTML in android

Question

I am using a TextView to show some text I have formatted from HTML:

Spanned s = Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.disclaimer));
tvDisclaimer.setText(s);

The text is in the strings.xml using CDATA:

<string name="disclaimer">
    <![CDATA[
    <p>blablabla</p>
    <ul>
      <li>foo
      <li>bar
    </ul> 
    ]]>
</string>

The point now, is that the whole thing crashes with an IndexOutOfBoundsException in Choreographer. It works for some simple HTML, but at some point, I only have to add one character (ø) to have it crash. Removing the character makes it work.

If Html.fromHtml() is not the way to go, what could I use to get some decent rich text in my app?

Directly the char. But in other places, the char works fine. — Bart Friederichs
– Bart Friederichs, Commented Oct 9, 2012 at 21:05
Since <ul> and <li> are not supported by Html.fromHtml(), you have bigger problems. — CommonsWare
– CommonsWare, Commented Oct 9, 2012 at 22:13
@CommonsWare, okay thanks. Too bad that is not found in the docs. Plus, I would like to have a HtmlNotSupportedException or something alike. Or at least an exception in Html.fromHtml. Now I get some strange error in a strange place. /rant — Bart Friederichs
– Bart Friederichs, Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 6:35

Bart Friederichs · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10 19:39:28Z

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I figured out how to do it. As already stated in the comments, the Html.fromHtml() method only supports a limited set of HTML. It can be accomplished by using a WebView:

    WebView wvDisclaimer = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.wvDisclaimer);
    wvDisclaimer.loadDataWithBaseURL("about:blank", 
            getString(R.string.disclaimer), "text/html", "utf-8", "about:blank");

answered Oct 10, 2012 at 19:39

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oloan sembiring · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-24 08:44:28Z

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I fixed this issue by using below codes:

<string name="disclaimer">
<![CDATA[
<p>blablabla</p>
    <br>&#8226; &nbsp;foo
    <br>&#8226; &nbsp; bar
]]>
</string>

Hope it helps.

answered Sep 24, 2014 at 8:44

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