Question: I need to decode HTML entities, e.g. from &#246; to ö, and &amp; to &.

`URLEncoder.decode(str)` does not do the job (convert from % notations). TextUtils has a HTMLencode, but not a HTMLdecode.

Are there any function for decoding HTML entities?

Answer: 
you can use WebView to represent any html text easily by following below steps.

first convert your data in html format as :

```
String res=null;
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
res=Html.fromHtml(product.getDescription(),Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT).toString();
}
else{
res=Html.fromHtml(product.getDescription()).toString();
}

```

Then load your data in WebView as: 

```
myWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, res, "text/html", "utf-8", null);

```
You can remove special char from string by calling 

```
responsestring.replace(“special char here”, “”);

```

you can convert response into a string from htmlstring like that – 
Html.fromHtml( response string here )
But this method is depreciated on API 24 so you need to do it in a correct way-

```
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24)
{
    post_description.setText(Html.fromHtml( response here , Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
}
else
{
    post_description.setText(Html.fromHtml( response here ));
}

```