HtmlTextView for Android

HtmlTextView for Android

HtmlTextView is an extended TextView component for Android, which can load HTML and converts it into Spannable for displaying it. It is a replacement for usage of the WebView component, which behaves strange on some Android versions, flickers while loading, etc.

Tags supported by Android (history of Html class)

• <p>
• <div> handled exactly like <p>
• <br>
• <b>
• <i>
• <strong> (bug on some Android versions: generates italic)
• <em> (bug on some Android versions: generates bold)
• <u>
• <strike>
• <tt>
• <dfn>
• <sub>
• <sup>
• <blockquote>
• <cite>
• <big>
• <small>
• <font size="..." color="..." face="...">
• <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>
• <a href="...">
• <img src="...">

Extended support by HtmlTextView

• <ul>
• <ol>
• <dd>
• <li>
• <code>
• <center>

The library also includes a workaround to prevent TextView from crashing on specific Android versionsand the possibility to load images from local drawables folder or from the Internet.

This library is kept tiny without external dependencies. I am using it to provide Help/About Activities in my apps.

Example

HtmlTextView text = new HtmlTextView(this);

// loads html from string and displays cat_pic.png from the app's drawable folder
text.setHtmlFromString("<h2>Hello wold</h2><ul><li>cats</li><li>dogs</li></ul><img src=\"cat_pic\"/>", true);

or

HtmlTextView text = new HtmlTextView(this);

// loads html from string and displays http://www.example.com/cat_pic.png from the Internet
text.setHtmlFromString("<h2>Hello wold</h2><ul><li>cats</li><li>dogs</li></ul><img src=\"http://www.example.com/cat_pic.png\"/>", false);

or

HtmlTextView text = new HtmlTextView(this);

// loads html from raw resource, i.e., a html file in res/raw/, this allows translatable resource (e.g., res/raw-de/ for german)
text.setHtmlFromRawResource(this, R.raw.help, true);