Android - UI for text wrap an image

Question

Is there anyway to wrap a TextView around an image? It\'s the typical thing that people do in CSS like this http://www.echoecho.com/htmlimages08.htm

Thanks,
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Answer 1

I've written a widget for this: http://code.google.com/p/android-flowtextview/

This widget extends (and therefore behaves like) a RelativeLayout so you can add child views. The class exposes a setText() method which allows you to set the view's text (plain or spannable) and then you call invalidate() to render the text. The text will fill in any space left by the child views.

Example usage:

Then in your code:

tv = (FlowTextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);              
Spanned spannable = Html.fromHtml("");
tv.setText(spannable);  // using html
tv.setText("my string"); // using plain text    
tv.invalidate(); // call this to render the text

Always happy to assist if you have any problems using this, find my email on my profile