Display Arabic text in android textview

Question

I'm trying to develop android app where I have html files saved in asset folders, these files contain Arabic text like this قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مَالِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَنْ تَشَاءُ وَتَنْزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّنْ تَشَاءُ I want to set textView whit this text I tried Farsi class but it doesn't show it properly. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use android:textDirection with "anyRtl".

• From xml: Add this line: android:textDirection="anyRtl" to your TextView tag.

• From code: textview.setTextDirection(View.TEXT_DIRECTION_ANY_RTL);

PS: Since API 17+.