This example will tell you how to display Html text in the android.widget.TextView and android.webkit.WebView object.
1. Display Html Data In Android TextView And WebView Example.
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- There are three buttons on the screen in this example.
- When you click the first button, it will read an Html source text and display the source code in the first TextView object.
- When you click the second button, it will display the Html data as an Html page in the second TextView object.
- When you click the third button, it will display the Html data as an Html page in the third WebView object.
2. Example Source Files.
- Below is the example android project source files list.
D:\WORK\DEV2QA.COM-EXAMPLE-CODE\ANDROIDEXAMPLEPROJECT\TEXTVIEWWEBVIEW │ .gitignore │ build.gradle │ gradle.properties │ gradlew │ gradlew.bat │ settings.gradle │ ├─.idea │ gradle.xml │ misc.xml │ modules.xml │ runConfigurations.xml │ ├─app │ │ .gitignore │ │ build.gradle │ │ proguard-rules.pro │ │ │ └─src │ ├─androidTest │ │ └─java │ │ └─com │ │ └─dev2qa │ │ └─textviewwebview │ │ ExampleInstrumentedTest.java │ │ │ ├─main │ │ │ AndroidManifest.xml │ │ │ │ │ ├─java │ │ │ └─com │ │ │ └─dev2qa │ │ │ └─textviewwebview │ │ │ MainActivity.java │ │ │ │ │ └─res │ │ ├─drawable │ │ │ ic_launcher_background.xml │ │ │ │ │ ├─drawable-v24 │ │ │ ic_launcher_foreground.xml │ │ │ │ │ ├─layout │ │ │ activity_main.xml │ │ │ │ │ ├─mipmap-anydpi-v26 │ │ │ ic_launcher.xml │ │ │ ic_launcher_round.xml │ │ │ │ │ ├─mipmap-hdpi │ │ │ ic_launcher.png │ │ │ ic_launcher_round.png │ │ │ │ │ ├─mipmap-mdpi │ │ │ ic_launcher.png │ │ │ ic_launcher_round.png │ │ │ │ │ ├─mipmap-xhdpi │ │ │ ic_launcher.png │ │ │ ic_launcher_round.png │ │ │ │ │ ├─mipmap-xxhdpi │ │ │ ic_launcher.png │ │ │ ic_launcher_round.png │ │ │ │ │ ├─mipmap-xxxhdpi │ │ │ ic_launcher.png │ │ │ ic_launcher_round.png │ │ │ │ │ └─values │ │ colors.xml │ │ strings.xml │ │ styles.xml │ │ │ └─test │ └─java │ └─com │ └─dev2qa │ └─textviewwebview │ ExampleUnitTest.java │ └─gradle └─wrapper gradle-wrapper.jar gradle-wrapper.properties - This example contains three important source files.
- MainActivity.java
- activity_main.xml
- strings.xml
2.1 Main Activity Java File.
- MainActivity.java
package com.dev2qa.textviewwebview; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.text.Html; import android.text.Spanned; import android.view.View; import android.webkit.WebView; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.TextView; public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private Button showHtmlSourceTextInTextViewButton = null; private Button showHtmlInTextViewButton = null; private Button showHtmlInWebViewButton = null; private TextView textViewText = null; private TextView textViewHtml = null; private WebView webView = null; private String htmlData = null; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); setTitle("dev2qa.com - Show Html String In TextView VS WebView"); initUiControls(); showHtmlSourceTextInTextViewButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View view) { // Set html source code text directly in textview. textViewText.setText(htmlData); } }); showHtmlInTextViewButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View view) { // Translate html source code to Spanned object. Spanned spannedHtml = Html.fromHtml(htmlData); // Set the Spanned object in textview. textViewHtml.setText(spannedHtml); } }); showHtmlInWebViewButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View view) { String mimeType = "text/html"; String encoding = "utf-8"; // Load html source code into webview to show the html content. webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, htmlData, mimeType, encoding, null); } }); } private void initUiControls() { if(showHtmlSourceTextInTextViewButton == null) { showHtmlSourceTextInTextViewButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button_show_html_source_text_in_textview); } if(showHtmlInTextViewButton == null) { showHtmlInTextViewButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button_show_html_in_textview); } if(showHtmlInWebViewButton == null) { showHtmlInWebViewButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button_show_html_in_webview); } if(textViewText == null) { textViewText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_view_text); } if(textViewHtml == null) { textViewHtml = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_view_html); } if(webView == null) { webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.web_view); } if(htmlData == null) { htmlData = getString(R.string.html_data); } } }
2.2 Main Activity Layout Xml File.
- app / res / layout / activity_main.xml
- The ScrollView is used to make the content scrollable.
<ScrollView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"> <LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="vertical"> <Button android:id="@+id/button_show_html_source_text_in_textview" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Show Html Source Text In TextView" android:textAllCaps="false" android:textSize="20dp"/> <Button android:id="@+id/button_show_html_in_textview" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Show Html In TextView" android:textAllCaps="false" android:textSize="20dp"/> <Button android:id="@+id/button_show_html_in_webview" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Show Html In WebView" android:textAllCaps="false" android:textSize="20dp"/> <TextView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Show Html Source Text In TextView:"/> <TextView android:id="@+id/text_view_text" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> <TextView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Show Html In TextView:" android:layout_marginTop="20dp"/> <TextView android:id="@+id/text_view_html" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> <TextView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Show Html In WebView:" android:layout_marginTop="20dp"/> <WebView android:id="@+id/web_view" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> </LinearLayout> </ScrollView>
2.3 Html Data String Definition File.
- app / res / values / strings.xml
- The Html data is declared in this file. Please note the Html data value is wrapped with <![CDATA[ …]]>.
<resources> <string name="app_name">TextViewWebView</string> <string name="html_data"> <![CDATA[ <h1>This is html h1.</h1> <h2>This is html h2</h2> <p>This is html p tag</p> <a href="#" onclick="javascrpit:alert('You click this link.')">This is a link</a> ]]> </string> </resources>