Usage

Override LayoutInflater to enabled HTML tags in your layout (see ./example project):

import wtf.g4s8.htmllayout.HtmlInflater;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    @Override
    public Object getSystemService(@NonNull String name) {
        if (name.equals(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)) {
            return new HtmlInflater((LayoutInflater) super.getSystemService(name), getApplicationContext());
        }
        return super.getSystemService(name);
    }
}

That's all - now you can push HTML tags to XML layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">
    <html>
        <h1>Html tags example</h1>
        <p>This is example of HTML tags right in Android layout XML file.</p>
        <h3>Unordered list</h3>
        <ul>
            <li>One</li>
            <li>Two</li>
            <li>Three</li>
        </ul>
    </html>
</FrameLayout>

and get it rendered:

Supported tags:

html - root tag for HTML elements
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 - all heading tags
p - paragraph tag
ol, ul - lists ordered and unordered
li - list item

TODO:

style customization via theme attributes

I'm not sure if this library can be useful, just wanted to abuse layout inflater service.

g4s8/html-layout

Usage