Is there a faster way to decode html characters to a string than Html.fromHtml()?

Question

I am using Html.fromHtml(STRING).toString() to convert a string that may or may not have html and/or html entities in it, to a plain text string.

This is pretty slow

Answer 1

This is an incredibly fast and simple option: Unbescape

It greatly improved our parsing performance which requires every string to be run through a decoder.