[Android] Images in TextView

Question

1) How would one go about altering/extending TextView to render inline images?

It seems that setText(Html.fromHtml(...image tags...)) might actually allow image insertion if set up correctly, but I haven't tried myself. Even if, I would still need fine grained control over the image drawing (my final goal is to display inline animated smiley images). So unfortunately a view based on WebKit or similar is not an option either.

2) As an alternative solution I thought of mixing TextViews and ImageViews (or more specifically, custom subclasses thereof which allow animation), but I'm not sure how I could achieve proper wrapping there (I'm fairly new to Android).

Answer 1

Does this text need to be editable, or just displayed? Another option might to be to render your content in a WebView and layout your text/images using straight html.