How can you display upside down text with a textview in Android?

Question

How can you display upside down text with a textview in Android?

In my case I have a 2 player game, where they play across from each other. I want to display test to

Answer 1

the below code is working perfectly (thanks by the way). try to add the missing constructor. if it is not working my the problem is android version main is 2.1

package p.c;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class TextViewUD extends TextView {

    public TextViewUD(Context context) {
        super(context);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    public TextViewUD(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    public TextViewUD(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

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

        float py = this.getHeight()/2.0f;
        float px = this.getWidth()/2.0f;
        Log.d("testUD", String.format("w: %d h: %d ", this.getWidth(), this.getHeight()));
        Log.d("testUD", String.format("w: %f h: %f ", py, px));
        canvas.rotate(180, px, py);

        super.onDraw(canvas);

        canvas.restore();
    }
}

Answer 2

I haven't tried doing this myself, but I think it should work.

Override the view's onDraw method, call it's super passing in the canvas, then after call the rotate method on the canvas passed to it, passing in either 180 or Math.PI, depending on whether it works in degrees or radians.

Answer 3

in the xml file add:

android:rotation = "180"

in the respective element to display text upside down.

for example:

<TextView
       android:id="@+id/textView1"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="match_parent"
       android:gravity="center"
       android:text="TextView" 
       android:rotation="180"/>