Show Firebase HTML-formatted text inside TextView

Question

I have a Text Editor inside my app, formatting watherver I want into HTML. But I've got a problem when retrieving this from the server (Firestore), because it's showing the whole text+codes, like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.<br><font color="green">Duis non arcu porttitor, laoreet arcu et, egestas justo.</font><br><b>Mauris non pharetra augue, id <i>maximus tellus</i>. Vivamus in sapien nisi.</b>

So this is what is loading inside the TextView, instead of formatted text like it should be. Does anyone knows how to fix it? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can use Html.fromHtml. It will format your text (html) to display.

val message = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.<br><font color="green">Duis non arcu porttitor, laoreet arcu et, egestas justo.</font><br><b>Mauris non pharetra augue, id <i>maximus tellus</i>. Vivamus in sapien nisi.</b>"

binding.tvMessage.text =
            Html.fromHtml(message, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT)

UPDATE:

You are doing it wrong way.

txtPostDesc.setText(Html.fromHtml(postDescription, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));