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Is there a way to represent special HTML characters in a EditText in Android? I want to display symbols like section signs (§), bullet points (•), degrees (°), etc.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks!
EDIT: The original post had asked about a TextView, but my intended question is about EditTexts. I want the user to be able to press the button corresponding to the symbol they want, and the symbol will be added to the EditText, and they then resume typing.
Have you tried \u00A7 \u2022 and \u00B0 in setText?
That are unicode numbers of those characters.
For EditText, you just have to create buttons with mEditText.getText().append(character) and probably mEditText.focus().