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I released my first app to the Android Market recently. It was just complicated enough that I thought I should provide some help screens inside the app. I have taken what I did there and built a demo app, in order to illustrate how one can build a simple help screen in Android.

My simple Help screen consists of a summary page where there is an image and a brief description for each help topic. Touching the image takes you to the full help text for a topic. All of the help text comes from xml files in the resource folders. The help text can include paragraphs, text formatting (bold, italics), and even links to web pages. Even if you do not need a Help screen for your app, knowing how to have formatted Html text in an Android text view could be of use to you.
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