android string.xml reading html tags problem

Question

In Android project\'s strings.xml file i have following html text

Answer 1

Directly passing the string resource id to setText() or using Context.getText() without Html.fromHtml() works properly but passing in the the result of Context.getString() does not.

ex:

strings.xml:

    This is bold and this is italic.

code in Activity.java file:

textView.setText(R.string.html); // this will properly format the text
textView.setText(getText(R.string.html)); // this will properly format the text
textView.setText(getString(R.string.html)); // this will ignore the formatting tags