I have a string resource that has some html tags in it. Ex. `"This is a <b>bold</b> text...

# compose

[Arpit Shukla]

I have a string resource that has some html tags in it. Ex. "This is a <b>bold</b> text." In View world I was able to directly use this resource and put it in a TextView as it accepts a CharSequence for text. In Compose, however, I need to create an AnnotatedString out of this resource to display it in a Text composable. How to do this?

[rsktash]

You can write parser

[Casey Brooks]

I've written a library for displaying these kinds of formatted strings that you may find helpful https://github.com/copper-leaf/thistle

[David W]

I used this SO answer, which has a file you can simply drop into your project: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68241339/1622788

[David W]

you would write Text("This is a <b>bold</b> text.".parseHtml())

[Colton Idle]

I think Zach K worked on some sort of html parser or something that he handed off to some other community member here. I know that's not necessarily helpful, but I could've sworn that he worked on something like that before joining the Compose team. lol