Android - string-array values that have HTML

Question

If I have this string array:

<string-array name="htmlstrings">
    <item><i>blah<br />blah</i></item>
    <item><b>1st line<br />2nd line</b></item>
</string-array>

And I get it and set it as text:

String[] htmlstrings = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.htmlstrings);
textV.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlstrings[1]));

As output I get:

1st line2nd line

But I want to get

1st line

2nd line

For regular strings (not string-array) I know I can get and display HTML with getText() like:

textV.setText(getText(R.string.onehtmlstring));

but I don't know what's the getText() equivalent for a string-array.

I used the line break just to illustrate the problem. What I need is HTML formatting, including bold, italic and font color like I can do with string resources (but not string-array members) — TimSim, May 01 '14 at 05:44

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 26 '21 at 09:57

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Use getTextArray() to make a CharSequence array, and set your TextView using that array.

CharSequence[] htmlchars = getResources().getTextArray(R.array.htmlstrings);
textV.setText(htmlchars[1]);

edited Oct 26 '21 at 09:57

JerabekJakub

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answered Feb 13 '15 at 20:03

paralith

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Thank you, this solution works. – JerabekJakub Oct 26 '21 at 09:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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Have you try below code:-

Spanned sp = Html.fromHtml( getString(R.string.htmlsource));
tv.setText(sp);

or

Set TextView text from html-formatted string resource in XML

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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answered May 01 '14 at 05:43

duggu

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I can't use `getString()` because it's a string-array. I tried using `Spanned sp = Html.fromHtml(htmlstrings[1]); textV.setText(sp);` but there's no difference, it ignores HTML in the string. – TimSim May 01 '14 at 05:48
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Enclosing the string in works great, thanks – TimSim May 01 '14 at 05:52
@TimSim is link is use full to you ? – duggu May 01 '14 at 05:52
Yup, CDATA saves the day – TimSim May 01 '14 at 05:54

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 03 '14 at 07:18

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Try with CDATA attribute:

<string-array name="channel_link">
    <item><![CDATA[https://news.google.com/news/feeds?pz=1&cf=all&ned=in&hl=en&output=rss]]></item>
</string-array>

edited Nov 03 '14 at 07:18

Sujith Thankachan

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answered Nov 03 '14 at 06:25

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Android - string-array values that have HTML

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