Adding text to ImageView in Android

Question

I want to use an ImageView to show some message in a fancy way.

How do I add text to an ImageView?

Answer 1

To draw text directly on canvas do the following:

1. Create a member Paint object in myImageView constructor

   Paint mTextPaint = new Paint();
   

2. Use canvas.drawText in your myImageView.onDraw() method:

   canvas.drawText("My fancy text", xpos, ypos, mTextPaint);
   

Explore Paint and Canvas class documentation to add fancy effects.