Android Text over image

Question

I have an imageView with an image, over that image I want to place a text. How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

There are many ways. You use RelativeLayout or AbsoluteLayout.

With relative, you can have the image align with parent on the left side for example and also have the text align to the parent left too... then you can use margins and padding and gravity on the text view to get it lined where you want over the image.