Android Html.fromHtml(String) doesn't work for text

Question

I am trying to add lines with different colors to my TextView using html tags.

For whatever reason,

    Html.fromHtml(\"

        

Answer 1

The fromHtml method is extremely limited in terms of the HTML tags that it supports, and font is not one of them. See http://commonsware.com/blog/Android/2010/05/26/html-tags-supported-by-textview.html for an unofficial list. I did some research on this myself, and I found that fromHtml is based on an obscure and poorly documented rendering engine.