Paste without rich text formatting into EditText

Question

If I copy/paste text from Chrome for Android into my EditText view it gets messed up, apparently due to rich text formatting.

Is there a way to tell the EditText vie

Answer 1

The problem with clearSpans() was that it removed too much and the editText behaves weird thereafter. By following the approach in this answer I only remove the MetricAffectingSpan and it works fine then.

For me the only problem was the size of the text. If you have other problems you'd have to adjust what you want to remove.

public void afterTextChanged(Editable string)
{
    CharacterStyle[] toBeRemovedSpans = string.getSpans(0, string.length(),
                                                MetricAffectingSpan.class);
    for (int index = 0; index < toBeRemovedSpans.length; index++)
        string.removeSpan(toBeRemovedSpans[index]);
    }
}