How to Draw TextView on Canvas in android..?

Question

How to Draw TextView on Canvas in android..?

We have Canvas.DrawBitmap(), Canvas.drawText(). Do we have any Method in Canvas which takes Te

Answer 1

You need to create a class which will extend Textview. After that override onDraw method. This method provides you to draw your textview tha way you like it

Answer 2

May be you need to use StaticLayout. It can draw formatted text, manages word wrapping and so on. Have a look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/StaticLayout.html

Answer 3

You can't draw a Textview directly, but you can put it in a layout and draw the layout. Something like this:

LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(context);

TextView textView = new TextView(context); 
textView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
textView.setText("Hello world");
layout.addView(textView);

layout.measure(canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());
layout.layout(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());

// To place the text view somewhere specific:
//canvas.translate(0, 0);

layout.draw(canvas);