How do you draw text with a border on a MapView in Android?

Question

I\'m trying to draw some text onto an MapView on Android. The drawing of the text goes fine, but it\'s very hard to read the text because it\'s white with no black border (

Answer 1

The half-answer, which may or may not be good enough (it was in my case), is to set a shadow:

textPaint.setShadowLayer(3, 0, 0, Color.BLACK);

The shadow helps the text stand out a lot, but isn't quite as good as a black border would be. I'm still curious how to solve the original question.