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

With a large batch of these it can add over a minute

Any parsing will take some time. 22ms seems to me like fast. Anyway, can you do it in background? Can help you some kind of caching?