# SufficientlySecure/html-textview

TextView to display simple HTML

Repository: https://github.com/SufficientlySecure/html-textview
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/html-textview
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, android-library, textview
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-09-07T11:23:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4748, "days_push": 2186, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2588, forks 514 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:02.772105+00:00)

## What it is
An Android library providing an extended TextView that renders simple HTML by converting it into Android Spannables, with support for loading images from drawables, assets, or the internet. It is a tiny, dependency-free Java library whose development has been discontinued at version 4.0.

## Use cases
- display simple html content in an android textview
- render formatted text like headings and lists in an android app
- show html strings with images loaded from drawables or a url
- load translatable html help pages from raw resources
- convert html to android spannable text

## When to choose
- you need to render very simple html in an android app with no external dependencies
- you want a drop-in TextView replacement for basic html including images
- you are maintaining a legacy android codebase already using this library

## When to avoid
- you need full or modern html/css rendering in android
- you want an actively maintained library with ongoing bug fixes
- your project targets recent android versions where Jetpack's HtmlCompat may suffice

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, parser, templating
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, web-development
- platform: -
- tags: textview, html-rendering, spannable, java, no-dependencies, android

## Member repositories
- SufficientlySecure/html-textview (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:02.772105+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:22:23.345134+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/SufficientlySecure/html-textview (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:02.772105+00:00, sha 64380a6d46ed)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.