Decode HTML entities in android

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?

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.

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));
  }

Simply you can do that using this code

  Html.fromHtml(String).toString();

Hope this will help you

you can use WebView to represent any html text easily by following below steps.

first convert your data in html format as :

String res=null;
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
res=Html.fromHtml(product.getDescription(),Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT).toString();
}
else{
res=Html.fromHtml(product.getDescription()).toString();
}

Then load your data in WebView as:

myWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, res, "text/html", "utf-8", null);

You can remove special char from string by calling

responsestring.replace(“special char here”, “”);

you can convert response into a string from htmlstring like that – Html.fromHtml( response string here ) But this method is depreciated on API 24 so you need to do it in a correct way-

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24)
{
    post_description.setText(Html.fromHtml( response here , Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
}
else
{
    post_description.setText(Html.fromHtml( response here ));
}