Android - string-array values that have HTML

Question

If I have this string array:

<string-array name="htmlstrings">
    <item><i>blah<br />blah</i></item>
    <item><b>1st line<br />2nd line</b></item>
</string-array>

And I get it and set it as text:

String[] htmlstrings = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.htmlstrings);
textV.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlstrings[1]));

As output I get:

1st line2nd line

But I want to get

1st line

2nd line

For regular strings (not string-array) I know I can get and display HTML with getText() like:

textV.setText(getText(R.string.onehtmlstring));

but I don't know what's the getText() equivalent for a string-array.

I used the line break just to illustrate the problem. What I need is HTML formatting, including bold, italic and font color like I can do with string resources (but not string-array members) — TimSim
– TimSim, Commented May 1, 2014 at 5:44

JerabekJakub · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-26 09:57:18Z

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Use getTextArray() to make a CharSequence array, and set your TextView using that array.

CharSequence[] htmlchars = getResources().getTextArray(R.array.htmlstrings);
textV.setText(htmlchars[1]);

edited Oct 26, 2021 at 9:57

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:28:54Z

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Have you try below code:-

Spanned sp = Html.fromHtml( getString(R.string.htmlsource));
tv.setText(sp);

or

Set TextView text from html-formatted string resource in XML

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4 Comments

TimSim Over a year ago

I can't use getString() because it's a string-array. I tried using Spanned sp = Html.fromHtml(htmlstrings[1]); textV.setText(sp); but there's no difference, it ignores HTML in the string.

TimSim Over a year ago

Enclosing the string in <![CDATA[]> works great, thanks

duggu Over a year ago

@TimSim is link is use full to you ?

TimSim Over a year ago

Yup, CDATA saves the day

Sujith Thankachan · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-03 07:18:53Z

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Try with CDATA attribute:

<string-array name="channel_link">
    <item><![CDATA[https://news.google.com/news/feeds?pz=1&cf=all&ned=in&hl=en&output=rss]]></item>
</string-array>

edited Nov 3, 2014 at 7:18

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answered Nov 3, 2014 at 6:25

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