betterhtml

This is basically a fork of the Html Class in Android with the toHtml Conversion stripped away and an easily customizable fromHtml Conversion.

Include via Gradle

Add this in your root build.gradle file (not your module build.gradle file):

allprojects {
	repositories {
		...
		maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
	}
}

Then, add the library to your project build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.budsmile:betterhtml:1.0.0'
}

Usage

In contrast to the original Html Class we're not using a single Function for conversion but a Builder Class instead.

##Simple Usage If you want to use BetterHtml without customizing anything all you have to do is the following:

String htmlString = "<b>Hello World</b>"
BetterHtml.Builder builder = new BetterHtml.Builder(context)
        .setHtmlString(htmlString);
CharSequence convertedString = builder.build();
TextView sampleText = findViewById(R.id.sample_text);
sampleText.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
sampleText.setText(convertedString);

##BetterHtml.Builder Built-In Customizations

The BetterHtml.Builder already allows for some customizations not found in the original Html Class.

###Header Sizes To change all Header Sizes either use

//The following are the default Values.
float[] headerSizes = new float[] {
    1.5f, //h1
    1.4f, //h2
    1.3f, //h3
    1.2f, //h4
    1.1f, //h5
    1f    //h6
}
builder.setHeaderSizes(headerSizes);

or use one of the following Methods to change individual Header Sizes:

setH1Size(float size);
setH2Size(float size);
setH3Size(float size);
setH4Size(float size);
setH5Size(float size);
setH6Size(float size);

###List Item Indent

As most Lists get parsed without a margin it looks way better to apply some margins to those by hand. This can be done by using one of the two following methods:

setListItemIndentSizeSp(int sizeInSp);
//Or if you want so set a dp Value
setListItemIndentSizeDp(int sizeInDp);

###Url Authority after a Text Link

If you'd like to append the Authority of the href Attribute to the Text inside an a Tag just call the following Method:

builder.setCreateAuthorityAfterLinks(true);

Example:

<a href="https://www.google.com">Awesome Link</a>

will be converted to

Awesome Link - (www.google.com)

##Extending SpanProvider Full Customization

###Using DefaultSpanProvider

By default BetterHtml uses the BetterSpanProvider Class. This allows for some of the Customization Options and will allow further customizations to the default parsing in the future.

BetterSpanProvider extends from DefaultSpanProvider which will produce exactly the same output you'd expect from the fromHtml function in the original Html Class. If you'd prefer the default Output just call the following on your BetterHtml.Builder:

builder.setSpanProvider(new DefaultSpanProvider());

That's it! :) BetterHtml will now produce default Output. Note that this will ignore the settings set on the BetterHtml.Builder.

###Overriding Methods

Instead of just choosing between DefaultSpanProvider and BetterSpanProvider it's also possible to extend these classes and override some of their methods to get an unique Look for some Tags.

It's also possible to implement the BaseSpanProvider Interface but then you'll have to provide all Creation Methods yourself.

License

Copyright (C) 2016 Alan Eurich
Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.