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Asked: 2026-05-17T20:23:58+00:00

An Android Application that I created for a client some months ago has the

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An Android Application that I created for a client some months ago has the ability to email a link to a PDF with a ton of text in it. The client now wants that text to go directly in the email, in HTML form (with links, bullets, etc).

Using Android’s Mail Intent, I am trying to send this long string over the EXTRA_MESSAGE field, but since I have to wrap the text in double-quotes, I have to ‘\’ almost every double-quote I want in the String, which is rather unpleasant for thousands of lines, not to mention (if I remember correctly), using the += operator for multiple lines didn’t seem to work.

Is there any way around this, and what’s the easiest way to put long HTML code into a String object for sending?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Hmm, I think I understand what you’re looking for. I think what you’re going to want to use is a method in the TextUtils class called htmlEncode(). This will take your input and change all the HTML elements to their equivalents (e.g. < becomes &lt;, " becomes &quot;). However, this method TAKES a String as a parameter; for example:

    String escapedString = TextUtils.htmlEncode(unescapedString);

    So to get this string, I would think the easiest way would be to first store this HTML string in an XML resource (strings.xml), then access it by using getString():

    String unescapedString = getString(R.string.html_string);
String escapedString = TextUtils.htmlEncode(unescapedString);

    This only works if the HTML string is always the same, though.

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