Decode HTML entities in android

Question

I need to decode HTML entities, e.g. from ö to ö, and & to &.

URLEncoder.decode(str) does not do the job (convert from % notations). TextUtils has a HTMLencode, but not a HTMLdecode.

Are there any function for decoding HTML entities?

see answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6138127/how-to-do-url-decoding-in-java — marius, Oct 16 '14 at 11:43

score 119 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 20 '16 at 11:13

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The Html class is supposed to do that, however it is said that everything is not supported. It always worked for me but I never had ö so I can't tell for this one. Try Html.fromHtml(yourStr) to get the decoded string.

edited Oct 20 '16 at 11:13

Majid

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answered May 27 '10 at 06:57

Sephy

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It appears that in API Level 16 they have added `Html.escapeHtml` – sFuller Jun 22 '13 at 02:13
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Although it works perfectly, I code is quite complicated. Why isn't there something simple for doing this? – capt.swag Aug 13 '15 at 11:42
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@sFuller Functionality wise `fromHtml != escapeHtml` (AFAICT from the android source code) – Shubham Chaudhary Sep 02 '15 at 10:42
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`escapeHtml`? But I want to do opposite (decode/unescape HTML)! – xjcl Jun 20 '20 at 15:06
Since API Level 24 it is better to use `HtmlCompat.fromHtml()` – StefanTo Aug 22 '23 at 06:17

Aalok · Answer 2 · 2017-10-21T03:08:26.687

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Html.fromHtml(String html) is deprecated after API v24 so this is the correct way to do it

  if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24)
  {
       textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString , Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY)));  
  }
  else
  {
       textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString));
  }

edited Oct 21 '17 at 03:08

answered Nov 29 '16 at 16:36

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score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '16 at 11:14

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Simply you can do that using this code

  Html.fromHtml(String).toString();

Hope this will help you

answered Jan 28 '16 at 11:14

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 04 '18 at 05:55

you can use WebView to represent any html text easily by following below steps.

first convert your data in html format as :

String res=null;
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
res=Html.fromHtml(product.getDescription(),Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT).toString();
}
else{
res=Html.fromHtml(product.getDescription()).toString();
}

Then load your data in WebView as:

myWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, res, "text/html", "utf-8", null);

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 08 '18 at 09:19

You can remove special char from string by calling

responsestring.replace(“special char here”, “”);

you can convert response into a string from htmlstring like that – Html.fromHtml( response string here ) But this method is depreciated on API 24 so you need to do it in a correct way-

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24)
{
    post_description.setText(Html.fromHtml( response here , Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
}
else
{
    post_description.setText(Html.fromHtml( response here ));
}

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 22 '23 at 06:16

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To work around the deprecation in API v24 you can use

HtmlCompat.fromHtml(htmlString, HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT).toString()

answered Aug 22 '23 at 06:16

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