Can I draw outside the bounds of an Android Canvas

Question

I\'m porting an app written in a graphics environment that allows drawing to happen outside the bounds of the clipping rectangle. Any way to do this in Android?

Answer 1

If you want to draw text out of bounds in TextView, you should be doing this instead:

It's not working to use clipRect() like @numan's answer because TextView clip it's own rect in onDraw():

if (mShadowRadius != 0) {
    clipLeft += Math.min(0, mShadowDx - mShadowRadius);
    clipRight += Math.max(0, mShadowDx + mShadowRadius);

    clipTop += Math.min(0, mShadowDy - mShadowRadius);
    clipBottom += Math.max(0, mShadowDy + mShadowRadius);
}

canvas.clipRect(clipLeft, clipTop, clipRight, clipBottom);

Last but not least, Don't forget to set android:clipChildren="false" and android:clipToPadding="false" in your parent ViewGroup