How to strip or escape html tags in Android

Html.fromHtml can be extremely slow for large html strings.

Here's how you can do it, easily and fast with jsoup:

Add this line to your gradle file:

implementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.11.3'

Check what is the latest jsoup version here: https://jsoup.org/download

Add this line to your code:

String text = Jsoup.parse(htmlStr).text();

Check this link here to learn how to preserve line breaks:

How do I preserve line breaks when using jsoup to convert html to plain text?

As it has not been mentioned yet, the way to do this in a backwards compatible manner would be to use the HtmlCompat utility class, and simply call (with 0 if you require no specific flags to be used)

HtmlCompat.from(inputString, 0).toString()

Under the hood it already does all the required api checks for you

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24) {
   return Html.fromHtml(source, flags);
}
return Html.fromHtml(source);

So for for the input

<a href="https://www.stackoverflow.com">Click me!</a>

you will receive only the string 'Click me!' as output.