Unordered list styling with HTML markup

In the link String Resource I came to know that Android supports only Bold, Italic and Underline styling with HTML markup, and I have seen some Application that displays Unordered list inside the AlertDialog, so tried to implement that in my application as

in my String.xml, I've given

<String name="unorderedlist">Different Types &lt;ul> &lt;li>T ype 1 &lt;/li> &lt;li> Type 2 &lt;/li> &lt;/ul> 开发者_开发百科</String>

in my activity, I tried to display it inside my AlertDialog as follows

String formatedString=String.format(getResources().getString(R.string.unorderedlist), "");
myAlertDialogBuilder.setMessage(Html.fromHtml(formatedString));

Its not working, So is there any other way to do this, give me some guidance. Thanks in Advance.

I saved the file that should be displayed as HTML page an HTML file inside the assets folder and designed a Custom Dialog box with a WebView and in the Java file I loaded the HTML file from the local resource and displayed it inside WebView.

Bulleted list can be simply created by using the <ul> and <li> tags in the string resource.

DO NOT USE setText(Html.fromHtml(string)) to set the string in code! Just set the string normally in xml or by using setText(string).

E.g:

strings.xml file

<string name="str1"><ul> <li><i>first</i> item</li> <li>item 2</li> </ul></string>

layout.xml file

    <TextView
        android:text="@string/str1"
    />

It will produce the following result:

• first item
• item 2

Following tags are supported like this (directly embedded in the string resource):

• <a> (supports attributes "href")
• <annotation>
• <b>
• <big>
• <font> (supports attributes "height", "size", "fgcolor" and "bicolor", as integers)
• <i>
• <li>
• <marquee>
• <small>
• <strike>
• <sub>
• <sup>
• <tt>
• <u>

Try looking in APIDemos > App> Alert Dialog Samples. You will find various examples on how to use Alert Dialogs.

For the code:

it is inside com.example.android.apis.app package -> AlertDialogSamples.java.