Android - How to draw a letter at a specific point?

Question

I want to fill the screen with a 100 different letters in random positions. On the iPhone I just created a bunch of UILabels set their x and y positions and then used animat

Answer 1

In android positioning child views is the responsibility of the layout class.

You need to create a custom.layout and overide the onLayout method. In this method you can iterate through all the child views calling View.layout(left,top,right,bottom) on each child.

i found this example code whilst trawling the net : https://gist.github.com/882650

You should also check out view.setTranslationX (and Y) which might be exactly what you need