Is there a better way to decode html directly on Android?

Question

I've got encoded html where even tags are encoded into html entities

Some &lt;b&gt; bold &lt;/b&gt; text

I'd like to display this as a spanned string in TextView, however the only way to do it is using Html.fromHtml() twice

val decoded = Html.fromHtml("").toString() // Some <b>bold</b> text
val spanned = Html.fromHtml(decoded)

Is there cleaner way to do this?

obviously `"Some <b> bold </b> text"` doesn't contains html tags when `"Some bold text"` does — Selvin, Jul 17 '17 at 13:47
The encoded string is part of network response, that's the reason why it's in this format. Language is not that important for the question — Lamorak, Jul 17 '17 at 13:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 17 '17 at 13:46

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You can use cdata:

<string name="string"><![CDATA[Some <b>bold</b> text]]></string>

Then you just pass the text directly into HTML.fromHtml (remember that API 24 has a new call, so you have to take that into consideration)

answered Jul 17 '17 at 13:46

Zoe

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