How to draw text on canvas?

Question

i\'m trying to develop a simple pie chart class for android. For now, it can take a map of labels and values and draw the pie chart. I\'m yet to add the legends for the pie,

Answer 1

There used to be another answer here that got deleted because it was a link only. The original link is here. The code is basically the same, but I took out the non text drawing portions and also scaled up the sizes to work better on modern screen densities.

This just shows a few things you can do with text drawing.

Here is the updated code:

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    DemoView demoview;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        demoview = new DemoView(this);
        setContentView(demoview);
    }

    private class DemoView extends View {
        public DemoView(Context context){
            super(context);
        }

        @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
            super.onDraw(canvas);

            // custom drawing code here
            // remember: y increases from top to bottom
            // x increases from left to right
            int x = 0;
            int y = 0;
            Paint paint = new Paint();
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);

            canvas.save();
            canvas.translate(100, 200);

            // make the entire canvas white
            canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);

            // draw some text using STROKE style
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
            paint.setStrokeWidth(1);
            paint.setColor(Color.MAGENTA);
            paint.setTextSize(100);
            canvas.drawText("Style.STROKE", 0, 0, paint);

            canvas.translate(0, 200);

            // draw some text using FILL style
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
            //turn antialiasing on
            paint.setAntiAlias(true);
            //paint.setTextSize(30);
            canvas.drawText("Style.FILL", 0, 0, paint);

            canvas.translate(0, 200);

            // draw some rotated text
            // get text width and height
            // set desired drawing location
            x = 75;
            y = 185;
            paint.setColor(Color.GRAY);
            //paint.setTextSize(25);
            String str2rotate = "Rotated!";

            // draw bounding rect before rotating text
            Rect rect = new Rect();
            paint.getTextBounds(str2rotate, 0, str2rotate.length(), rect);
            canvas.translate(x, y);
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
            // draw unrotated text
            canvas.drawText("!Rotated", 0, 0, paint);
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
            canvas.drawRect(rect, paint);
            // undo the translate
            canvas.translate(-x, -y);

            // rotate the canvas on center of the text to draw
            canvas.rotate(-45, x + rect.exactCenterX(),
                    y + rect.exactCenterY());
            // draw the rotated text
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
            canvas.drawText(str2rotate, x, y, paint);

            //undo the translation and rotation
            canvas.restore();
        }
    }
}

Something else that I want to try later is drawing text along a path.

See also this fuller answer here that gives the following image.