Draw a semicircle in the background of a View

Question

I am trying to create a TextView whose background is a half circle. I create a oval using a ShapeDrawable. I tried to create a semicircle by using ScaleDrawable to double th

Answer 1

instead you can use the image to set as a background...

1>design any image using paint and save it to any supported format such as .jpg or .png i.e this will be your image with semicircle which you want.

2>save the image in the res/drawable folder

3>set your textview background to that image using android:background="@drawable/yourimage.jpg"

hope this helps...