Canvas draw html text

Question

Is it possible to pass Html to Canvas.drawtext().
I tried this:

canvas.drawText(Html.fromHtml("This is an <u>underline</u> text demo for TextView."), 0, 20, colIndex, rowIndex, getTextPaint());

But that cannot parse tags and not show correctly.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can parse the html string into Spanned

public static Spanned fromHtml(String html, int flags) {
    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
        return Html.fromHtml(html, flags);
    } else {
        return Html.fromHtml(html);
    }
}

then use StaticLayout to draw:

mStaticLayout = new StaticLayout(fromHtml(html, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY), mPaint, sizeWidth, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1.0f, 0, false);