How to format a string for a textview android

Question

I have a TextView and when I call .setText(string), it displays the string exactly as it is. For instance, if the string contains " ' " , ' will be displayed.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Looks like your outside source already does the convertion from ' to ' since regular single quote will be displayed just fine in a TextView. What you can to do in this case is:

yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(stringSource));

where stringSource is your string that comes from outside source. This will take care of more than just the single quote character.

Answer 2

The single quote ' in java needs to be escaped using a backslash (\). You can find other characters that need to be escaped here.