Android string encoding and html entities converting

Question

There is a String in Android Java. How do I change it to another given encoding and replace HTML-entities such as & with &?

This is so that international symbols can be displayed correctly.

Tarsem Singh · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-14T20:46:06.410

48

to decode Html String you can use Html.fromHtml()

like

Html.fromHtml((String) htmlCode).toString();

if you want reverse

than you can use TextUtils.htmlEncode()

edited Jul 14 '13 at 20:46

answered Jul 14 '13 at 20:39

Tarsem Singh

Thanks. Replacing HTML entities works. About encoding yet have no tries. – Tramway11 Jul 14 '13 at 21:32
1

this is not working any more, in googles documentations it is noted that this method is deprecated in API level 24. – emir Oct 14 '16 at 15:20
Docs also state to use `fromHtml(String source, int flags)` instead. – althaus May 03 '17 at 07:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '20 at 07:30

1

You can add denpendency:

implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-text', version: '1.3'

And use StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4(s), then get the result.

answered Mar 25 '20 at 07:30

wang willway

2 Answers2