How to display HTML texts in string-array of ListView

Question

I created a ListView program such that when a list item is clicked, it will open into a NewActivity. Now, i have made a string array to populate the ListView. The texts i want to display in the NewActivity has both italics and bold characters well formatted. I have converted the texts into HTML My question is; How can display this HTML texts in item array form. For Instance: HTML-Text-Here I have tried CDATA but there's no way i can fix it inside the code in the string.

This is what i tried that didn't work:

<item>"<![CDATA[ <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The Love Pillar</strong></span></p>
<p>I Believe in love, the love of pure heart, sent..</p> ]]>"</item>

Here is my String.xml

<resources>

<string-array name="DescriptionLyrics">
        <item>
</item>
        <item>No.1 LyricsHere</item>
        <item>No.2 LyricsHere</item>
        <item>No.3 LyricsHere</item>
        <item>No.4 LyricsHere</item>
    </string-array>
    
    
    
    </resources>

Joseph · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-04 16:46:59Z

I will categorize this solution in two stages.

Stage 1

Instantiate your TextView e.g TextView newTextView;

In your Activity.java, in the onCreate set

newTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.htmlFormattedText1aa)));

In Your String.xml set

<string name="htmlFormattedText1aa">"<![CDATA[ <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The Love Pillar</strong></span></p>
<p>I Believe in love, the love of pure heart, sent..</p> ]]>"</string>

If you have TextView defined in your String; newTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.htmlFormattedText1aa)));

=====Stage 2=====

If you want to pass the array string items through Adapter

Instantiate your TextView e.g TextView newTextView;

Now, get data from previous activity when item of activity is clicked using intent

String newDescription = intent.getStringExtra("brandNewDesc");

I have already defined "brandNewDesc" in my ListViewAdapter and sent it to Activity.java using intent.putExtra("brandNewDesc", models.get(i).getBrandNewDesc());

Now in your Activity.java set mBrandNewDesc.setText(Html.fromHtml(newDescription));

Finally in the String.xml set thus;

 <item>"<![CDATA[ <p><font color="#ff0000"><b>The Love Pillar</b></font></p>
<p>I Believe in love, the love of pure heart, sent..</p> ]]>"</item>

Enjoy!!

Rajpal Singh · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-04 12:18:19Z

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Simply use the code as

<item><p><font color="#ff0000"><b>The Love Pillar</b></font></p>
<p>I Believe in love, the love of pure heart, sent..</p></item>

Because! I already used this type of lists and paragraphs in my own project.

answered Mar 4, 2020 at 12:18

Rajpal Singh

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Joseph Over a year ago

the texts appear as plain text. The color, bold character formats embedded didn't show. What do i do???

Joseph Over a year ago

If i copy & paste the texts directly, the texts appear to be combined together without spaces and margin. Is there another way i can maintain the text markup style???

Rajpal Singh Over a year ago

@Joseph You can use the static method in java class which returns Html.fromHtml("your html code"); and you can easily collect the required HTML content to use in TextView and other Views. Maybe, It helps - Have a great day :)

Peacemaker Otoo · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-06 01:38:33Z

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<item>"<![CDATA[ <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The Love Pillar</strong></span></p>
<p>I Believe in love, the love of pure heart, sent..</p> ]]>"</item>

answered Jul 6, 2020 at 1:38

Peacemaker Otoo

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