drawtext

I'm trying to display a text using the code below. The problem is that the text is not centered horizontally. When I set the coordinates for drawText , it sets the bottom of the text at this position. I would like the text to be drawn so that the text is centered also horizontally. This is a picture to display my problem further: @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onDraw(canvas); //canvas.drawRGB(2, 2, 200); Paint textPaint = new Paint(); textPaint.setARGB(200, 254, 0, 0); textPaint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER); textPaint.setTypeface(font);

I have a view, I'm drawing with the Canvas object in the onDraw(Canvas canvas) method. My code is: Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setColor(Color.WHITE); paint.setStyle(Style.FILL); canvas.drawPaint(paint); paint.setColor(android.R.color.black); paint.setTextSize(20); canvas.drawText("Some Text", 10, 25, paint); The problem is the text doesn't show through the background, what am I doing wrong? If I remove the canvas.drawPaint(paint) and paint.setColor(android.R.color.black) you can see the text on the screen..... Worked this out, turns out that android.R.color.black is not the same as Color