Question

I am using a TextView to show some text I have formatted from HTML:

Spanned s = Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.disclaimer));
tvDisclaimer.setText(s);

The text is in the strings.xml using CDATA:

<string name="disclaimer">
    <![CDATA[
    <p>blablabla</p>
    <ul>
      <li>foo
      <li>bar
    </ul> 
    ]]>
</string>

The point now, is that the whole thing crashes with an IndexOutOfBoundsException in Choreographer. It works for some simple HTML, but at some point, I only have to add one character (ø) to have it crash. Removing the character makes it work.

If Html.fromHtml() is not the way to go, what could I use to get some decent rich text in my app?

Answer 1

I figured out how to do it. As already stated in the comments, the Html.fromHtml() method only supports a limited set of HTML. It can be accomplished by using a WebView:

    WebView wvDisclaimer = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.wvDisclaimer);
    wvDisclaimer.loadDataWithBaseURL("about:blank", 
            getString(R.string.disclaimer), "text/html", "utf-8", "about:blank");