How to calculate string font width in pixels?

Question

I want to calculate string font width in pixels in android. I am having string array and I am appending all these array elements to form one string. so I ha

Answer 1

Looks like there is a measureText method available on Paint. I also found an example:

mPaint = new Paint();
mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
mPaint.setStrokeWidth(5);
mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
mPaint.setTextSize(64);
mPaint.setTypeface(Typeface.create(Typeface.SERIF, Typeface.ITALIC));
// ...
float w = mPaint.measureText(text, 0, text.length());