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title: "How to add summernote editor in our Android projects? Add also explains how to set/get value from the summernote editor in an android studio?"  
description: "How to add summernote editor in our Android projects? Add also explains how to set/get value from the summernote editor in an android studio?"  
author: "Gurmeet Kaur"  
published: 2018-10-27  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51183/how-to-add-summernote-editor-in-our-android-projects-add-also-explains-how-to-set-get-value-from-the-summernote-editor-in-an-android-studio  
category: "programming"  
tags: ["android", "summernote editor"]  
reading_time: 4 minutes  

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# How to add summernote editor in our Android projects? Add also explains how to set/get value from the summernote editor in an android studio?

How to [add](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4883/5-signs-you-need-to-add-more-protein-to-your-diet) summernote [editor](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/239151/why-is-a-wikipedia-page-a-perfect-choice-for-content-marketing) in our Android [projects](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/105927/how-to-excel-at-managing-multiple-projects)? Add also explains how to set/get [value](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23219/an-optimized-description-adds-value-to-experience-and-in-turn-effectively-guest-posting-packages) from the [summernote editor](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34696/how-to-add-summernote-editor-in-android-studio-project) in an [android studio](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/10942/android-studio-vs-eclipse)?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

**“Summernote”** Getting started first we know about What is summernote? it is an **editor that uses an open source library for posting any text or image**. It is a combination of different language like **HTML, CSS, javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap..etc.****\** **Here we demonstrate the simple example for adding the summernote editor in our code project.****\** **Add this code to your dependencies**

```
buildTypes {        release {            minifyEnabled true            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'        }    }..................................................dependencies {implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:26.1.0'
    implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.0.0'compile 'in.nashapp.androidsummernote:androidsummernote:1.0.5'}
```

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**Add some code in Manifest (For adding images from Device)** <uses-permission [android](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1672/android-internals):name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />\
**Retrive HTML Data from summernote**String html_data = summernote.getText();\
**Set HTML Data** summernote.setText("<h2><i>Hello World.</i><h2><br><h3> Summernote Example</h3>");\
**Activity_main.xml**

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.example.msclient009.summernoteexample.MainActivity">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tex1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
            android:layout_marginStart="50dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
            android:text="Summernote Example"
            android:textColor="#f00"
            android:textSize="22dp"
            tools:ignore="InvalidId" />
        
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tex"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
            android:layout_marginStart="50dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
            android:text="Scrollable Summernote"
            android:textColor="#f00"
            android:textSize="22dp"
            tools:ignore="InvalidId" />

            <in.nashapp.androidsummernote.Summernote
                android:id="@+id/summernote"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_marginEnd="5dp"
                android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
                android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
                android:overScrollMode="ifContentScrolls"

                android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack="true"
                android:scrollbarSize="20dp"
                android:scrollbarStyle="insideInset"
                android:scrollbars="vertical"
                android:verticalScrollbarPosition="right" />
    </LinearLayout>

</ScrollView>
```

**\****MainActivity.java** \

```
package com.example.msclient009.summernoteexample;
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import in.nashapp.androidsummernote.Summernote;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnTouchListener {
    Summernote summernote;

    @SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        summernote = (Summernote) findViewById(R.id.summernote);
        summernote.setRequestCodeforFilepicker(5);
        summernote.setText("<h2>Hello World.<h2><br><h3> I'am Summernote</h3>");
        summernote.setOnTouchListener(MainActivity.this);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
        if (summernote.hasFocus()) {
            view.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true);
            switch (motionEvent.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK){
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_SCROLL:
                    view.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(false);
                    return true;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }
}
```

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**Output :****\**![How to add summernote editor in our Android projects? Add also explains how to set/get value from the summernote editor in an android studio?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/53853952-fd6e-4cf2-8faf-4339dcc157bf/images/78829791-19b9-4aa9-bfad-b47a5c0a75f6.png)**\****\****\****"Thanks for Reading"****\**\


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