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user7913931
user7913931

Reputation:

Html.fromHtml(); not working on some devices

I'm using below code on android nougat and it's working:-

Html.fromHtml("<strike> " + myText + "</strike"));

But on Marshemellow it's not working, i mean the <strike> tag.

Is there any way to get working on all devices ?

myText is a dynamic text received in recyleView:

 public void onBindViewHolder(final DealsAdapter.MyViewHolder holder, final int position) {
    final DataDeals feedItem = feedItemList.get(position);

Usage :-

holder.oldPrice.setText(fromHtml("<strike>" + feedItem.getOldPrice() + "</strike>"));

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5631

Answers (3)

Abhishek Luthra
Abhishek Luthra

Reputation: 2665

In addition to what Vyacheslav has mentioned, please check that no Font Family is set on your TextView. I spent nearly 4 hours debugging this issue and removing the FontFamily from the TextView solved my issue.

Upvotes: 0

Thiago Saraiva
Thiago Saraiva

Reputation: 311

I was having the same problem where StrikethroughSpan was not working (for some devices) on a TextView inside a RecyclerView item layout. It worked fine on my Pixel OS 8.1, but didn't work on a Nexus 6 OS 7.1.1.

In my case I realised that some constraints in my layout were causing the issue. I changed the way I had implemented the layout a little bit and the StrikethroughSpan started working again. Pay attention to TextViews with wrap_content widths and heights and positioned in a Relative layout. Things that might affect the size of the TextView might be causing this issue. Unfortunately I didn't get to the root cause of the problem, but I hope this might help other people with similar problems.

As a note, both solutions to strike through the text work for me:

Html.fromHtml("<strike> " + myText + "</strike"));

or

SpannableStringBuilder spanText = new SpannableStringBuilder("my_awesome_text");
spanText.setSpan(new StrikethroughSpan(), 0, textToBeDisplayed.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
myTextView.setText(spanText);

Upvotes: 2

Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav

Reputation: 27221

this method is deprecated.

I should use this code:

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public static Spanned fromHtml(String html){
    Spanned result;
    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
       result = Html.fromHtml(html,Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY);
    } else {
       result = Html.fromHtml(html);
    }
    return result;
}

usage:

fromHtml("<strike> " + myText + "</strike"));

EDIT

Do not forget to close your triangular bracket:

fromHtml("<strike> " + myText + "</strike>")); instead of your: fromHtml("<strike> " + myText + "</strike"));

Upvotes: 2

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