Expounding Android Canvas’ DrawText
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6 min readAug 3, 2019
In Android, when we want to have some Text, we would just use TextView. However, in case we want to have a custom view and have better control of the text, we could use the Canvas
' drawText
api to draw the text.
Check out the below simple App I made to show some fun with drawText (you could get the code in the below link)
In this blog, I’ll be explaining some drawText
features provided.
The function arguments
It consist of 4 arguments.
canvas.drawText(text, coordinateX, coordinateY, paint)
- The
text
is just the text instring
. There are other similar function which takes incharArray
andcharSequence
. - The
coordinateX
andcoordinateY
is use to position the text. This is further explained below in the next section - The
paint
to decide how one would draw the text.
The coordinate
If we were to draw the text using coordinate 0, 0 as below
canvas.drawText(text, 0, 0, paint)