Android Display HTML in a ListView

Question

Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else but I am having a minor difficulty understanding how to display html inside my listview.

My list view is declared.

Answer 1

If all you wanted is to display some text where parts of the text should be bold, all you need is one TextView, and properly formatted text (with <b> added) and do the following:

textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

For more information on what TextView+Html can support, see here

Answer 2

This also works and is perphaps a lot simpler. First, pass your data from String[] to Spanned[]

Spanned[] myhtmldata = new Spanned[mydata.length];
for(int i = 0 ; i < mydata.length; i++) {
myhtmldata[i] = Html.fromHtml(mydata[i]);
}

Then declare the ArrayAdapter using the CharSequence parameter

ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> linksadapter = new ArrayAdapter<CharSequence>(getActivity(), R.layout.list_item, R.id.textview, myhtmldata);         
setListAdapter(linksadapter);

Borrowed from here

Answer 3

ArrayAdapter<Spanned> listAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<Spanned>(MyActivity.this, R.layout.row);
listAdapter.add(Html.fromHtml(htmlText));
listAdapter.add(Html.fromHtml(htmlText));
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