android use html tags in textview programmatically

Question

I have been able to use html tags in the string ie, to set textview from resource like :

<resources>
<string name="somestring">
    <B>Title</B> <I>Italic</I><BR/>
    Content
</string>
</resources>

This works fine when the text is in resource and I set it to my textView.

Now, I want to programmatically set a string I get from server at runtime to the textView. Therefore I can't define the string in resource folder.

I tried the following

textView.setText("<B>Bold</B><I>Italic</I>");

but this doesnt work. Any help would be appreciated.

Rushabh Patel · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-25 06:43:22Z

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Use code like:

textview.setText(Html.fromHtml("YOUR HTML STRING"));

Hope it will help you.

answered Jun 25, 2013 at 6:43

Rushabh Patel

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Thx for the answer I cant accept it till the next 6mins it seems

Ya no problem. you can accept it later also. important thing is that you can now go ahead in your developement.