How to get styled text from TextView

Question

Quite simple problem:

1. I have some TextView

   TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
   

2. I set styled text (with <b> tags or any other tags)

   textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("Simple text. <b>Bold text</b>. Simple text."));
   

Problem: when I call textView.getText() I receive Simple text. Bold text. Simple text.. <b> tags have disappeared somehow.

How can I retrieve text from TextView with its formatting?

Answer 1

@Wand Maker's assumption (see comments in question) was correct

Following code works:

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("Simple text. <b>Bold text</b>. Simple text."), TextView.BufferType.EDITABLE);
String almostSameText = Html.toHtml(tv.getEditableText()).toString();

The result is: <p>Simple text. <b>Bold text</b>. Simple text</p>