How get a string width in Libgdx?

Question

I wonder know how to get the width of my string in pixels

Answer 1

According to @Nates answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20759876/619673 calling method

BitmapFont.getBounds(String str).width

not always returns proper width! Especially when you are reusing font. If you want draw text for example in the center of part of view port, you can avoid this problem by using another method

BitmapFont.drawWrapped(...)

Example code:

 font.drawWrapped(spriteBatch, "text", x_pos, y_pos, your_area_for_text, BitmapFont.HAlignment.CENTER);