Decode HTML entities in android

Question

I need to decode HTML entities, e.g. from ö to ö, and & to &.

URLEncoder.decode(str) does not do the job (convert from % notations). TextUtils has a HTMLencode, but not a HTMLdecode.

Are there any function for decoding HTML entities?

Answer 1

The Html class is supposed to do that, however it is said that everything is not supported. It always worked for me but I never had ö so I can't tell for this one. Try Html.fromHtml(yourStr) to get the decoded string.

Answer 2

Html.fromHtml(String html) is deprecated after API v24 so this is the correct way to do it

  if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24)   {        textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString , Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY)));     }   else   {        textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString));   }