How to show html codes inside TextView or something else on Android?

Question

How can I show html source as rendered in TextView or something else? I tried this:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv1);
    String s = "<img src=\"http://images2.layoutsparks.com/1/146278/purple-lotus-lovely-dew.jpg\"/>";
    Spanned sp = new SpannableString(s);

    tv.setText(Html.toHtml(sp));
}

But I got:

enter image description here

Vadim Kotov · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-26 12:28:29Z

1

HTML support in a TextView is pretty limited, but here is an example of some of the things you can do:

https://github.com/brianjolly/TextFun

The key is escaping the opening bracket in your strings.xml

<string name="fun_text">I like &lt;font color=\'0x00b0f1\'>BLUE!&lt;/font> and &lt;b> Bold&lt;/b> and &lt;i> italic&lt;/i> and &lt;u> underline&lt;/u></string>

And then resetting the text like so:

String styledText = tv.getText().toString();
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(styledText), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

The beauty of open source is you can see what Html.fromHtml() supports in the android source here:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/core/java/android/text/Html.java

If you're looking to do something more advanced take a look at WebView

edited Jul 26, 2017 at 12:28

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2 Comments

uzay95 Over a year ago

developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-webview.html is very nice tutorial. Thank you for your answer...

thanhbinh84 Over a year ago

@Brian why doesn't my string show correct color? it's <string name="formatting"><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 17px;"><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">API docs</span></strong></p></div></string>.

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