Why Show Java.lang.classcastexception: Android.text.spannablestring Cannot Be Cast To Java.lang.string?

When copying String from any browser page, pasteData works properly. However when copying SpannedString from a message sent item editor(field), the application crashes and shows th

Solution 1:

From CharSequence.toString()

Returns a string with the same characters in the same order as in this sequence.

You need to use next code.

StringpasteData= item.getText().toString();

You can not cast to android.text.SpannableString because item.getText() returns CharSequence, there are a lot of implementations of it

Solution 2:

SpannableString is not String directly. so, you can not cast. but, it can be converted to string. you can convert something to string with concatenating with empty string.

pasteData = "" + item.getText();

Solution 3:

If your Spanned text only containing HTML content then you can convert it using Html.toHtml()

StringhtmlString= Html.toHtml(spannedText);

Solution 4:

This is what it worked for me in Kotlin:

valstr= text.toString()

Solution 5:

It has worked for me String htmlString = String.valueOf(Html.fromHtml(contenttext,Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));