How to convert Spannable String into Html formatted String in Android?

Question

I have a spannable string containing bold italics and underlined text ( it may contain more formatted text ) For Example : - abcdef dfdfdfdf dfgdfgfdgf dfgfdgdfgfdfgd

I want to convert this string into html formatted text such that, my final output contains tags such that the above string should become

abcdef dfdfdfdf dfgdfgfdgf dfgfdgdfgfdfgd

TextUtils.htmlEncode

is not working. Real World Scenario - You view a webpage and when you view its source it contains tags. Similar thing i want here

waqaslam · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-05 13:20:12Z

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You need to use Html.toHtml() to convert your Spanned text into HTML string.

String htmlString = Html.toHtml(spannedText);

answered Nov 5, 2013 at 13:20

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Rahul Gupta Over a year ago

If i use this, then if i have dfd in my spannable string, then the html is returned as dfd. I want that it should return dfd. Is there any way to achieve this ?

waqaslam Over a year ago

i think that's totally up to how the Html.toHtml method does the conversion. However what you may do is to use htmlString.replace("", ""); to simplify the tags. Its a hack but will resolve this particular issue.

Rahul Gupta Over a year ago

Ya did this only. Thanks anyway :)

Noob · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-05 14:16:07Z

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this is how to convert string to html but consider not all html tags working on android .

Spanned htmlText = Html.fromHtml(text);
mytextView.setText(htmlText);

android supported only this html tags

<a href="...">
<b>
<big>
<blockquote>
<br>
<cite>
<dfn>
<div align="...">
<em>
<font size="..." color="..." face="...">
<h1>
<h2>
<h3>
<h4>
<h5>
<h6>
<i>
<img src="...">
<p>
<small>
<strike>
<strong>
<sub>
<sup>
<tt>
<u>

answered Nov 5, 2013 at 14:16

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Nathalie Over a year ago

It seams that other tag work to such as > and < for > and <. And there is a bug as < is interpreted as a start tag and not as a lower than sign. see stackoverflow.com/questions/58718421/…

Fernando Torres Over a year ago

"Too many characters in character literal" error

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