How to put text in a drawable?

Question

I\'m trying to create a drawable on the fly to use as a background for a custom linearlayout. It needs to have hash marks and such (no big deal), but also have numbers label

Answer 1

This allows you to put any View in a Drawable, including a TextView. You can even use styles in your XML layout.

public class ViewDrawable extends Drawable {
    final View mView;

    public ViewDrawable(final Context context, final @LayoutRes int layoutId) {
        this(LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(layoutId, null));
    }

    public ViewDrawable(final @NonNull View view) {
        mView = view;
    }

    public View getView() {
        return mView;
    }

    @Override
    public void setBounds(int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
        super.setBounds(left, top, right, bottom);
        final int widthMeasureSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(right - left, View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY);
        final int heightMeasureSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(bottom - top, View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY);
        mView.measure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        mView.layout(left, top, right, bottom);
    }

    @Override
    public void draw(@NonNull Canvas canvas) {
        mView.draw(canvas);
    }

    @Override
    public void setAlpha(int alpha) {
        mView.setAlpha(alpha/255f);
    }

    @Override
    public void setColorFilter(@Nullable ColorFilter colorFilter) {

    }

    @Override
    public int getOpacity() {
        return PixelFormat.UNKNOWN;
    }
}