posted 7 years ago
That probably reflects the general practice of sending as little data as possible to the mobile device; that means just the raw data.
On JavaSE, HtmlUnit works very well in handling all kinds of HTML tasks, including extracting data, but last I looked at its source code, it used AWT, Swing and ImageIO classes that aren't available on Android, so porting it over to Android may not be a trivial task.