Parse HTML into TextView

During a recent project I had the need to parse HTML into a TextView with hyperlinks and images. Images with hyperlinks are also clickable. This code still needs work but it displays HTML without a problem. Tweaks need to be done to properly size images and some threading wouldn’t hurt either.

Layout XML is simply a single textview. Need to add INTERNET permissions also.

MainActivity:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Html;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.Html.ImageGetter;
import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;
import android.text.method.ScrollingMovementMethod;
import android.widget.TextView;

("NewApi") public class MainActivity extends Activity {

        private TextView textView;
        String html = "";
        
        
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        
                html = "
 Heading 1
 
 Heading 2
 
"
                                + ""
                                + "
";
        
        textView = (TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        URLImageParser p = new URLImageParser(textView);
        Spanned htmlSpan = Html.fromHtml(html, p, null);
        textView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());
        textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
        textView.setClickable(true);
        textView.setText(htmlSpan);

        }

        ("deprecation")
        public class URLDrawable extends BitmapDrawable {
            protected Drawable drawable;

            
            public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
                if(drawable != null) {
                    drawable.draw(canvas);
                }
            }
        }
        
        public class URLImageParser implements ImageGetter {
            TextView c;
            TextView container = textView;
            URLDrawable urlDrawable;
           
            public URLImageParser(TextView c) {
                this.c = c;
            }

            public Drawable getDrawable(String source) {
                urlDrawable = new URLDrawable();
                
                ImageGetterAsyncTask asyncTask = 
                    new ImageGetterAsyncTask( urlDrawable);

                asyncTask.execute(source);

                return urlDrawable;
            }

            public class ImageGetterAsyncTask extends AsyncTask  {
                URLDrawable urlDrawable;

                public ImageGetterAsyncTask(URLDrawable d) {
                    this.urlDrawable = d;
                }

                
                protected Drawable doInBackground(String... params) {
                    String source = params[0];
                    return fetchDrawable(source);
                }

                
                protected void onPostExecute(Drawable result) {  

                        float multiplier = (float)200 / (float)result.getIntrinsicWidth();
                    int width = (int)(result.getIntrinsicWidth() * multiplier);
                    int height = (int)(result.getIntrinsicHeight() * multiplier);
                    urlDrawable.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
                    urlDrawable.drawable = result;  
                    URLImageParser.this.container.invalidate();
                    URLImageParser.this.container.setHeight((URLImageParser.this.container.getHeight() 
                                + result.getIntrinsicHeight()));                    
                }
                
                public Drawable fetchDrawable(String urlString) {
                    try {
                        InputStream is = fetch(urlString);
                        Drawable drawable = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src");
                        drawable.setBounds(0, 0, 0 + drawable.getIntrinsicWidth(), 0 
                                + drawable.getIntrinsicHeight()); 
                        return drawable;
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                        return null;
                    } 
                }

                private InputStream fetch(String urlString) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
                    DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                    HttpGet request = new HttpGet(urlString);
                    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
                    return response.getEntity().getContent();
                }
            }
        }
}

Project source code

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