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I faced the same problem, thus I just wanted to have the HTML stripped and just get the String.
The solution is probably not the most beautiful one, but still pretty pragmatical:
public CharSequence stripHtml(String s) {
return Html.fromHtml(s).toString().replace('\n', (char) 32)
.replace((char) 160, (char) 32).replace((char) 65532, (char) 32).trim();
}
This [OBJ] character seemed to be (char) 65532.
I had to display a very ugly RSS item's (HTML) description field in a TextView without formats. The hypertext contained a lot of WYSIWYG debris like <p></p><p></p>…