Save spanned text in SharedPreferences

Question

I have a ListView with Spanned items. As this concept:

 Spanned Test = Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.teststring));

is very slow I would like to save these Spanned in SharedPreferences. The problem is that I can only save strings and lose the entire html formatting. Any idea how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Use Html.toHtml() to convert a Spanned back into HTML, then save the resulting HTML string in your SharedPreferences.

Note, though, that not everything supported by fromHtml() is also supported by toHtml() (and vice versa).