Custom rotated EditText view with working selection, cursor location, etc

Question

What I want to do

I want to make a rotated and flipped EditText view that has all of the properties of a normal EditText view.

My problem

I have

Answer 1

Tried to get the partial solution with minor changes, check if that's you want.

1) Set android:gravity="top|left" in your edittext declaration inside xml.

2) Noticed that without super method call inside onDraw method, not able to show cursor. So I called,

super.onDraw(canvas);

instead,

getLayout().draw(canvas);

3) For touch events, I tried to swap x and y coordinates. So that you can have cursor as per touch event.(Just tried and it was working, got lucky :) )

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    event.setLocation(event.getY(), event.getX());
    return super.onTouchEvent(event);
}

Comment this line inside onDraw method, for exact touch event(Found by trial and error).

canvas.translate(getCompoundPaddingLeft(), getExtendedPaddingTop());

4) I could not do any thing about highlighting or selecting text.

?) Another Solution : If you think that, some how you get RTL language support work on edittext then you just need to rotate it. But unfortunately its not working properly with android. Reference : How to handle RTL languages on pre 4.2 versions of Android? and Android setting with TextView for Hebrew text?