How to display HTML in TextView?

You can build valid HTML for Android TextView using the HtmlDsl library on Github: https://github.com/jaredrummler/HtmlDsl.

The library provides syntactic sugar to make the code more understandable and less error-prone by only supporting elements and attributes that are rendered by Android.

Example creating some HTML:

kotlin

textView.setHtml {
    h3("Android Versions:")
    ul {
        li {
            a(href = "https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/get") {
                +"Android 12 Beta"
            }
        }
        li("Android 11")
        li("Android 10")
        li("Pie")
        li("Oreo")
        li("Nougat")
        li("Marshmallow")
        li("Lollipop")
        // ...
    }

    small {
        sub {
            +"by "
            a {
                href = "https://github.com/jaredrummler"
                text = "Jared Rummler"
            }
        }
    }
}

Supported HTML elements for Android TextView:

xml

<a href="...">
<b>
<big>
<blockquote>
<br>
<cite>
<dfn>
<div align="...">
<em>
<font color="..." face="...">
<h1>
<h2>
<h3>
<h4>
<h5>
<h6>
<i>
<img src="...">
<p>
<small>
<strike>
<strong>
<sub>
<sup>
<tt>
<u>
<ul>
<li>