fromHtml: Different behaviour on JellyBean and Kit

Question

I am using fromHtml to display formatted text (bold italic etc) in TextView. However, I found it's behaviour is different on JellyBean (4.1.2) and KitKat(4.4.2)

Here is code:

    String myHtml = "<b>hello</b>&#128516;";
    Spanned spanned = Html.fromHtml(myHtml, null, null);

Here html string has 😄 which is unicode for an emoji. Now after calling fromHtml it returns following value on KitKat (and above):

spanned = hello                

            

标签： android android-4.4-kitkat android-4.1-jelly-bean fromhtml

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Answer 1

add this java file in your src and add this font .ttf file in assets dir

now use this like below

String myHtml = "<b>hello</b>&#128516;";
Spanned spanned = AndroidEmoji.ensure(myHtml);

for more check here gitcode.

Answer 2

Surprisingly, root of this problem was in Html.toHtml which I had used to convert text in TextView to html. I used custom toHtmland this problem solved. I used .toHtmlwritten in this answer. Indeed it is great solution. I wonder how Android's original Html.toHtml is so lame and defective.