Displaying HTML text in Jetpack Compose

<p>Hello everyone, in this short article I will be showing you how to display HTML text in Android. At the time of writing this article, Jetpack compose&rsquo;s Text composable doesn&rsquo;t allow us to do this. But, thanks to the great interop support for compose, we can use the TextView or MaterialTextView to display html styled text.</p> <h2>Pre-requisites</h2> <ul> <li>Knowledge about using views in compose using the AndroidView composable.</li> <li>Basic knowledge of how to work with Jetpack compose.</li> </ul> <h2>What is HTML text?</h2> <p>HTML text, is, as the name implies, a piece of text that is formatted using HTML tags. A very important thing to note here is that, not all tags are supported in Android. Only a few basic tags are supported.</p> <h2>Use of HTML text in the context of Android</h2> <p>Many API endpoints use this format to store textual content. An endpoint may make use of this for several reasons. Here&rsquo;s an example of such an endpoint &mdash; The Spotify API.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@theAndroidDeveloper/displaying-html-text-in-jetpack-compose-7b801bb028c6">Click Here</a></p>