Show in textview html with inline styles

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I need to show html with inline styles in my app. There are a lot of text that must be in different views so I can't use Webview(I tried to use a lot of Webviews but the app becomes very slow ).As I know TextView can show html but it can`t show html with inline styles. So, what should I do? Is there any way to show it or to generate only html with simple tags from html with inline styles?

So I need to show html like this:

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: 36pt; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">Article Title</span></p>

But TextView can`t understand style.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '15 at 11:39

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Android native TextView doesn't support all HTML tags and features. It only does support a few tags and properties. So, in your case, there's a couple of options which you may want to consider.

Use WebView to show rich texts. However, WebViews are too heavy and slow.
Use 3rd party libraries that improve native TextView and support more HTML tags. For example: HTML-TextView.

answered Nov 13 '15 at 11:39

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Thank you for answer but the main problem is that I need to use inline styles. – sofi37 Nov 13 '15 at 11:43
@sofi37 Sorry, Android `TextView`s don't support `style` property. You may want to instead use `WebView`. – frogatto Nov 13 '15 at 11:46
@sofi37 What do you want to do with `style` property? Only color? – frogatto Nov 13 '15 at 11:50
@Hiimfrogatto Webview is too heavy and I need to use a couple of them. – sofi37 Nov 13 '15 at 11:54
@sofi37 Color and font size are fine and are supported by `TextView`. – frogatto Nov 13 '15 at 11:58
@Hiimfrogatto Not only color. Also align, font size, font color,font family, and others. – sofi37 Nov 13 '15 at 11:59
@Hiimfrogatto I got the package with html inline styles from back-end so I can`t change it to attributes. The only thing what I can do is to parse it but it is not so simple. – sofi37 Nov 13 '15 at 12:01
@sofi37 Okay, so, consider using `WebView`. – frogatto Nov 13 '15 at 12:03
@sofi37 However, if you'd want to parse, consider [jSoup] and [HTMLcleaner]. – frogatto Nov 13 '15 at 12:04
@Hiimfrogatto but then app is too slow as I use for example 15 webviews – sofi37 Nov 13 '15 at 12:04
@Hiimfrogatto Thank you I will look on [jSoup] and [HTMLcleaner]. – sofi37 Nov 13 '15 at 12:10

Acuna · Answer 2 · 2019-03-11T13:13:42.893

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Only one way to implement this is to use a 3rd party libraries as alternative for Android Html.fromHtml () method like this, which supports a CSS attributes, so for example

<div style="font-weight:bold;">bold text</div>

become

<b>bold text</b>

edited Mar 11 '19 at 13:13

answered Mar 11 '19 at 12:55

Acuna

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