Question

I’m trying to set a Button’s text with Html.FromHtml("some html") in Mono for Android.

In Java this works:

myButton.setText(Html.fromHtml("<small>(sub comment)</small>")); 

But in Mono for Android that fails as there is no signature in SetText that accepts the Html.FromHtml span.

Is there another way this is supposed to work?

Answer 1

Html.fromHtml() returns Spanned, which extends CharSequence in both Android and MonoDroid. But it appears that the Android Button class has a setText(CharSequence) method (from TextView), but the MonoDroid Button does not (not from TextView anyways).

It appears that there are other options that contain a CharSequence though, perhaps you could use one of those instead?

1. TextView.SetText(Java.Lang.ICharSequence, TextView.BufferType)
2. TextView.set_TextFormatted(Java.Lang.ICharSequence)
3. ‘button.SetText(span, TextView.BufferType.Spannable);