How to Draw TextView on Canvas in android..?

Question

How to Draw TextView on Canvas in android..?

We have Canvas.DrawBitmap(), Canvas.drawText(). Do we have any Method in Canvas which takes Te

Answer 1

You can't draw a Textview directly, but you can put it in a layout and draw the layout. Something like this:

LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(context);

TextView textView = new TextView(context); 
textView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
textView.setText("Hello world");
layout.addView(textView);

layout.measure(canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());
layout.layout(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());

// To place the text view somewhere specific:
//canvas.translate(0, 0);

layout.draw(canvas);