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How to find the whole X and Y coordinates of the text?

I'm developing a kids alphabets learning application. I need to get the X and Y coordinates of the whole text area from a textview to allow them to draw over the text only. For Example: I have a letter A in my text view, I need to allow the user to draw the letter only over the A text only and need to block the drawing outside the text.
My only problem is I don't know how to find the text area for alphabets as I have increased the font size for the text to display bigger and center aligned it in the screen.
Any suggestions will be really helpful.

Something like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15B3L78jWfI)?
To stop user from drawing outside of the given area, overriding (12:22) onTouchEvent() you could just put a clause checking whether the given coordinates are inside, or not.
To check if they are inside, you could write such a simple function:
int MIN_X;
int MAX_X;
int MIN_Y;
int MAX_Y;
boolean isInside(int xCord, int yCord){
if(xCord>=MIN_X && xCord<=MAX_X && yCord>=MIN_Y && yCord<=MAX_Y)
return true;
return false;
}
You'd only have to override the min and max values, each time the chosen area changes.

Try the below mentioned code:
ViewTreeObserver vto = textView.getViewTreeObserver();
vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener (new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
textView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
// Initialize a new integer array two hold the TextView x y position
int[] location = new int[2];
textView.getLocationOnScreen(location);
}
});

How to check programatically if all the Views fit inside the screen

I have a layout which is something like this:
LinearLayout (linearLayout)
'--TextView (textView1)
'--ImageView (imageView)
'--TextView (textView2)
textView1 changes its text sometimes and it can be long, so it leaves part of textView2 out of the screen. I want to prevent that, so I want to remove imageView from the layout whenever this happens. imageView may or may not be visible at the time when this is computed (maybe it was removed before when textView1 was edited previously).
This is what I have coded:
void changeText(String veryLongString){
textView1.setText(veryLongString);
int [] loc = new int [2];
textView2.getLocationOnScreen(loc);
int bottom = textView2.getMeasuredHeight() + loc[1];
if (imageView.getVisibility() == View.GONE)
bottom += imageView.getHeight();
if (bottom > linearLayout.getMeasuredHeight()){
imageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
} else {
imageView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
}
But for some reason this doesn't work as expected, because it seems as if changes in the position and height of the Views don't take place immediately. When I call getMeasuredHeight() and getLocationOnScreen() I get the values BEFORE the changes I have just made. The result that I get is that if I set a very large text imageView is not removed, but if I then set a short text, it is removed.
If there any other way to face this problem?

Even though I think that this is not the right approach (you can do all kinds of stuff in your XML so you don't have to meddle with Java code), here is a quick example of what you can do from Java (for example, in your onStart() method)
ViewGroup group = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.myLayout);
int groupHeight = group.getHeight();
for (int i = 0; i < group.getChildCount(); i++) {
groupHeight -= group.getChildAt(i).getHeight();
if (groupHeight < 0) {
// they don't fit in the layout
myImageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
}

Is Android Switch widget text positioned 1 pixel too high with respect to baseline?

I'm aligning a text view and a switch by baseline. However, in the end result, the bottom of text view text and switch text is misaligned by one pixel. See the gap between the bottom of letter "RE" and the horizontal purple line. Is there a way to compensate this so that the bottom of two strings are perfectly aligned?

Subclass the Switch widget and override the getBaseline() method. Then you can return any value you want.
Here's what TextView (and Switch, by inheritance) is doing to calculate baseline :
#Override
public int getBaseline() {
if (mLayout == null) {
return super.getBaseline();
}
int voffset = 0;
if ((mGravity & Gravity.VERTICAL_GRAVITY_MASK) != Gravity.TOP) {
voffset = getVerticalOffset(true);
}
return getExtendedPaddingTop() + voffset + mLayout.getLineBaseline(0);
}

Android TextView: can I stop text that is partially displayed from appearing

In my app I display several text views containing text of various length that is loaded in at run time. I do not know the dimensions of the text view or the length of the text until run time. Sometimes, when the text is long and the textview small some of the text is partially visible, for example:
I want to remove the partially visible text as it looks a bit naff, but I can't find a way to do this. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Dave

You can hard code the TextView height in a way that the second row of text will not be visible.
Or use:
android:maxLines , Makes the TextView be at most this many lines tall.
as suggested above.

Put your textviews in a scrollview layout.And specify a specific width to your textview and make the height wrap content.So that your text doesn't get cut.

This is how I did it. I ran this code after the activity had loaded by posting the method CheckTextIsVisible to the parent relativelayout's handler queue, otherwise the height of the textviews will not be known:
m_eventsLayout.Post(new Action(CheckTextIsVisible));
Then the method CheckTextIsVisible finds each textview with text in it, calculates the height of the font, works out how many lines can fit in the textview, and sets the number of maximum lines accordingly:
private void CheckTextIsVisible()
{
View view;
TextView tView;
Android.Text.TextPaint tPaint;
float height;
int heightOfTextView;
int noLinesInTextView;
for (int i = 0; i < m_eventsLayout.ChildCount; i++)
{
view = m_eventsLayout.GetChildAt(i);
if (view is TextView)
{
tView = (TextView)view;
if (tView.Text != "")
{
//calculate font height
tPaint = tView.Paint;
height = CalculateTextHeight(tPaint.GetFontMetrics());
//calculate the no of lines that will fit in the text box based on this height
heightOfTextView = tView.Height;
noLinesInTextView = (int)(heightOfTextView / height);
//set max lines to this
tView.SetMaxLines(noLinesInTextView);
}
}
}
}
private float CalculateTextHeight(Android.Graphics.Paint.FontMetrics fm)
{
return fm.Bottom - fm.Top;
}
This results in no partially visible text!

How to restore textview scrolling position after screen rotation?

In my Android Layout, I have a TextView. This TextView is displaying a rather large spannable text and it is able to scroll. Now when the phone is rotated, the View is destroyed and created and I have to setText() the TextView again, resetting the scroll position to the beginning.
I know I can use getScrolly() and scrollTo() to scroll to pixel positions, but due to the change in View widths, lines become longer and a line that was at pixel pos 400 might now be at 250. So this is not very helpful.
I need a way to find the first visible line in a TextView in onDestroy() and then a way to make the TextView scroll to this specific piece of text after the rotation.
Any ideas?

This is an old question, but I landed here when searching for a solution to the same problem, so here is what I came up with. I combined ideas from answers to these three questions:
Scroll TextView to text position
Dynamically Modifying Contextual/Long-Press Menu in EditText Based on Position of Long Press
ScrollView .scrollTo not working? Saving ScrollView position on rotation
I tried to extract only the relevant code from my app, so please forgive any errors. Also note that if you rotate to landscape and back, it may not end in the same position you started. For example, say "Peter" is the first visible word in portrait. When you rotate to landscape, "Peter" is the last word on its line, and the first is "Larry". When you rotate back, "Larry" will be visible.
private static float scrollSpot;
private ScrollView scrollView;
private TextView textView;
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
textView = new TextView(this);
textView.setText("Long text here...");
scrollView = new ScrollView(this);
scrollView.addView(textView);
// You may want to wrap this in an if statement that prevents it from
// running at certain times, such as the first time you launch the
// activity with a new intent.
scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
setScrollSpot(scrollSpot);
}
});
// more stuff here, including adding scrollView to your main layout
}
protected void onDestroy() {
scrollSpot = getScrollSpot();
}
/**
* #return an encoded float, where the integer portion is the offset of the
* first character of the first fully visible line, and the decimal
* portion is the percentage of a line that is visible above it.
*/
private float getScrollSpot() {
int y = scrollView.getScrollY();
Layout layout = textView.getLayout();
int topPadding = -layout.getTopPadding();
if (y <= topPadding) {
return (float) (topPadding - y) / textView.getLineHeight();
}
int line = layout.getLineForVertical(y - 1) + 1;
int offset = layout.getLineStart(line);
int above = layout.getLineTop(line) - y;
return offset + (float) above / textView.getLineHeight();
}
private void setScrollSpot(float spot) {
int offset = (int) spot;
int above = (int) ((spot - offset) * textView.getLineHeight());
Layout layout = textView.getLayout();
int line = layout.getLineForOffset(offset);
int y = (line == 0 ? -layout.getTopPadding() : layout.getLineTop(line))
- above;
scrollView.scrollTo(0, y);
}

TextView can save and restore its state for you. If you aren't able to use that, you can disable that and explicitly call the methods:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.SavedState.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#onSaveInstanceState()
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#onRestoreInstanceState(android.os.Parcelable)

The best answer, I got by searching.
#Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
final ScrollView scrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.Trial_C_ScrollViewContainer);
outState.putFloatArray(ScrollViewContainerScrollPercentage,
new float[]{
(float) scrollView.getScrollX()/scrollView.getChildAt(0).getWidth(),
(float) scrollView.getScrollY()/scrollView.getChildAt(0).getHeight() });
}
#Override
protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
final float[] scrollPercentage = savedInstanceState.getFloatArray(ScrollViewContainerScrollPercentage);
final ScrollView scrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.Trial_C_ScrollViewContainer);
scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
scrollView.scrollTo(
Math.round(scrollPercentage[0]*scrollView.getChildAt(0).getWidth()),
Math.round(scrollPercentage[1]*scrollView.getChildAt(0).getHeight()));
}
});
}