Formatted Text in TextView

TIP: It is not trivial to figure out how to show HTML formatted text in a TextView. First, escape the tags <b>Title</b> in the text as in:

<string name="about_tlh_header">&lt;b&gt;Title&lt;/b&gt;</string>

Then format the text and convert the HTML text to styled text as in:

textViewHeader.setText(Html.fromHtml(String.format(inBundle.getString("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.Header"))));

Your app can support both formatted and non-formatted text by setting a flag such as isFormatted:

Intent i= getIntent();

if (i != null) {inBundle= i.getExtras();}

if (inBundle != null) {

    isFormatted= inBundle.getBoolean("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.IsFormatted",false);

    if (isFormatted){       textViewHeader.setText(Html.fromHtml(String.format(inBundle.getString("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.Header"))));        textViewBody.setText(Html.fromHtml(String.format(inBundle.getString("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.Body"))));

textViewFooter.setText(Html.fromHtml(String.format(inBundle.getString("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.Footer"))));   

    }

    else {

        textViewHeader.setText(inBundle.getString("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.Header"));

        textViewBody.setText(inBundle.getString("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.Body"));

        textViewFooter.setText(inBundle.getString("qprinstitute.crisis.Display.Footer"));   

    }

} // setText accepts null

String.format is not an "efficient" call so we try to avoid calling String.format if the text is not formatted.

Note: <string formatted="false" name="about'> still appears to permit escaping html tags, but may not permit dynamic substitution as in:

<string name="welcome_messages">Hello, %1$s! You have %2$d new messages.</string>

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