Measuring text width to be drawn on Canvas ( Android )

Question

Is there a method which returns the width ( in pixels ) of a text to be drawn on an Android canvas using the drawText() method according to the Paint used to draw it?

Answer 1

Well I have done in different way:

String finalVal ="Hiren Patel";

Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setTextSize(40);
Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "Helvetica.ttf");
paint.setTypeface(typeface);
paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);

Rect result = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(finalVal, 0, finalVal.length(), result);

Log.i("Text dimensions", "Width: "+result.width()+"-Height: "+result.height());

Hope this will help you.