Show in android textview

Question

I have String with ul and li in it. And I am trying to show them in HTML formatting in textview.
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(myHtmlText));
But tex

Answer 1

In my case, I'm getting a list of String (from backend as a JSON Response), then render the HTML manually using this approach for TextView only:

In Kotlin

// ViewUtils.kt
@file:JvmName("ViewUtils")

package com.company

private fun List.joinToBulletList(): String =
        joinToString(prefix = "
", postfix = "
", separator = "\n") {
            "
 $it
"
        }

fun TextView.renderToHtmlWithBulletList(contents: List) {
    val content = contents.joinToBulletList()

    val html: Spannable = if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
        Html.fromHtml(content, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT, null, null) as Spannable
    } else {
        Html.fromHtml(content, null, null) as Spannable
    }

    text = html
}

// AnyActivity.kt
val contents = listOf("desc 1", "desc 2", "desc 3")
textViewFromXml.renderToHtmlWithBulletList(contents)

In Java

// AnyActivity.java
List contents = new String["desc 1", "desc 2", "desc 3"];
ViewUtils.renderToHtmlWithBulletList(textViewFromXml, contents)

Notice the @file:JvmName("ViewUtils") it is useful to change the file name so Java code can call it ViewUtils.java instead of ViewUtilsKt.java. See here for more detail

P.S: Please feel free to edit this