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Add text as a banner overlay on top of an image

I have an image in an imageView which i want to write some labels on it and then send it over social media or mail.
Is their any way to send the image with the text on top of it (Text overlay on image) ??
Thanks in advance

Try to draw text on bitmap following this
public Bitmap drawTextToBitmap(Context gContext,
int gResId,
String gText) {
Resources resources = gContext.getResources();
float scale = resources.getDisplayMetrics().density;
Bitmap bitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(resources, gResId);
android.graphics.Bitmap.Config bitmapConfig =
bitmap.getConfig();
// set default bitmap config if none
if(bitmapConfig == null) {
bitmapConfig = android.graphics.Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
}
// resource bitmaps are imutable,
// so we need to convert it to mutable one
bitmap = bitmap.copy(bitmapConfig, true);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
// new antialised Paint
Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
// text color - #3D3D3D
paint.setColor(Color.rgb(61, 61, 61));
// text size in pixels
paint.setTextSize((int) (14 * scale));
// text shadow
paint.setShadowLayer(1f, 0f, 1f, Color.WHITE);
// draw text to the Canvas center
Rect bounds = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(gText, 0, gText.length(), bounds);
int x = (bitmap.getWidth() - bounds.width())/2;
int y = (bitmap.getHeight() + bounds.height())/2;
canvas.drawText(gText, x, y, paint);
return bitmap;
}

Create a circular bitmap in Android 2.3

I need to create a completely round image in Android. I've got the following code which works in newer version of Android, but in older versions (2.3), it is just a black circle:
Bitmap avatar = null;
if (avatarUrl == null || avatarUrl.equals("")) {
avatar = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.icon_no_avatar);
} else {
avatar = HttpClientHelper.downloadImage(avatarUrl);
}
if (avatar == null) {
// No avatar? Load the default one and use it instead
avatar = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.icon_no_avatar);
}
float width = 50; // avatar.getWidth();
float height = 50; // avatar.getHeight();
float ratio = (float)avatar.getWidth() / (float)avatar.getHeight();
// Scale the avatar to the area that it needs to fit into
avatar = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(avatar, (int)(width * ratio), (int)height, true);
// Turn the avatar into a round image
Bitmap circleBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap((int)width, (int)height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
BitmapShader shader = new BitmapShader(avatar, TileMode.CLAMP, TileMode.CLAMP);
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setShader(shader);
RectF rect = new RectF(0.0f, 0.0f, width, height);
Canvas c = new Canvas(circleBitmap);
c.drawCircle(width / 2, height / 2, (width / 2) - 1, paint);
Is there something different I should do with 2.3 to make this work?

Use this
float width = 50; // avatar.getWidth();
float height = 50; // avatar.getHeight();
float radius = 45;
Bitmap bmpBG = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height,
Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas c = new Canvas(bmpBG);
//YOU CAN ADD SHADER FOR EFFECTS
Paint p = new Paint();
p.setAntiAlias(true);
p.setDither(true);
p.setColor(Color.RED);//SET YOUR COLOR HERE
c.drawCircle(width/ 2, height/ 2,
radius , p);
//NOW USE bmpBG

This must be a bug in 2.3. I was previously setting the round bitmap as the ImageView background which caused the black circle. When I set it as the foreground, the problem went away.
Again, this only happens with 2.3. After 3.0 this problem no longer exists.

I can't draw text in front of bitmap for market in Google map API V2?

Hi, genious!
What's the problem?
I tried to draw text in front of marker. I'm going to get clear bitmap and draw text but bitmap is still clear - where is the text?
I tried to convert View to bitmap but it's also wasn't good idea.
PS: scale >= 1
mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
.position(new LatLng(56.83789, 60.5986)) .icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.fromBitmap(drawTextToBitmap(getApplicationContext(), R.drawable.ic_maps_marker,"19"))));
//here I'm trying to draw text bitmap
public static Bitmap drawTextToBitmap(Context gContext,int gResId,String gText) {
Resources resources = gContext.getResources();
float scale = resources.getDisplayMetrics().density;
Bitmap bitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(resources, gResId);
android.graphics.Bitmap.Config bitmapConfig =
bitmap.getConfig();
if(bitmapConfig == null) {
bitmapConfig = android.graphics.Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
}
bitmap = bitmap.copy(bitmapConfig, true);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
paint.setTextSize((int) (14 * scale));
paint.setShadowLayer(1f, 0f, 1f, Color.WHITE);
Rect bounds = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(gText, 0, gText.length(), bounds);
int x = (bitmap.getWidth() - bounds.width())/2;
int y = (bitmap.getHeight() + bounds.height())/2;
canvas.drawText(gText, x * scale, y * scale, paint);
return bitmap;
}

Density was only necessary to determinate the size of the text. To draw text on canvas should not use scale, because of displacements x and y calculated for particular bitmap.
Try this:
canvas.drawText(gText, x, y, paint);
This work on 4 devices:

How might I add a watermark effect to an image in Android?

I have an image with frames and I need to add a watermark effect. How might I do this?

I found great tutorial on Android Image Processing here.
public static Bitmap mark(Bitmap src, String watermark, Point location, Color color, int alpha, int size, boolean underline) {
int w = src.getWidth();
int h = src.getHeight();
Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, src.getConfig());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0, 0, null);
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(color);
paint.setAlpha(alpha);
paint.setTextSize(size);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setUnderlineText(underline);
canvas.drawText(watermark, location.x, location.y, paint);
return result;
}
Thanks to Pete Houston who shares such useful tutorial on basic image processing.

For others reference, if you want to add the logo of your application (which is in your drawable folder(s)) on top of image use following method:
private Bitmap addWaterMark(Bitmap src) {
int w = src.getWidth();
int h = src.getHeight();
Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, src.getConfig());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0, 0, null);
Bitmap waterMark = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(mContext.getResources(), R.drawable.logo);
canvas.drawBitmap(waterMark, 0, 0, null);
return result;
}

If someone is still searching for this, I found a good solution here
It adds a watermark to the bottom right portion and scales it according to the source image which was exactly what I was looking for.
/**
* Embeds an image watermark over a source image to produce
* a watermarked one.
* #param source The source image where watermark should be placed
* #param watermark Watermark image to place
* #param ratio A float value < 1 to give the ratio of watermark's height to image's height,
* try changing this from 0.20 to 0.60 to obtain right results
*/
public static Bitmap addWatermark(Bitmap source, Bitmap watermark, float ratio) {
Canvas canvas;
Paint paint;
Bitmap bmp;
Matrix matrix;
RectF r;
int width, height;
float scale;
width = source.getWidth();
height = source.getHeight();
// Create the new bitmap
bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG | Paint.DITHER_FLAG | Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG);
// Copy the original bitmap into the new one
canvas = new Canvas(bmp);
canvas.drawBitmap(source, 0, 0, paint);
// Scale the watermark to be approximately to the ratio given of the source image height
scale = (float) (((float) height * ratio) / (float) watermark.getHeight());
// Create the matrix
matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.postScale(scale, scale);
// Determine the post-scaled size of the watermark
r = new RectF(0, 0, watermark.getWidth(), watermark.getHeight());
matrix.mapRect(r);
// Move the watermark to the bottom right corner
matrix.postTranslate(width - r.width(), height - r.height());
// Draw the watermark
canvas.drawBitmap(watermark, matrix, paint);
return bmp;
}
And it is well commented which is what is a huge plus!

It seems you are looking for a waterrippleeffect as this one. Checkout the complete source code. Also check the screenshot how does the effect look like.

In Kotlin:
Note: Its just modified code of above answers
private fun mark(src: Bitmap, watermark: String): Bitmap {
val w = src.width
val h = src.height
val result = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, src.config)
val canvas = Canvas(result)
canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0f, 0f, null)
val paint = Paint()
paint.color = Color.RED
paint.textSize = 10f
paint.isAntiAlias = true
paint.isUnderlineText = true
canvas.drawText(watermark, 20f, 25f, paint)
return result
}
val imageBitmap = mark(yourBitmap, "Your Text")
binding.meetProofImageView.setImageBitmap(imageBitmap)

You can use androidWM to add a watermark into your image, even with invisible watermarks:
add dependence:
dependencies {
...
implementation 'com.huangyz0918:androidwm:0.2.3'
...
}
and java code:
WatermarkText watermarkText = new WatermarkText(“Hello World”)
.setPositionX(0.5)
.setPositionY(0.5)
.setTextAlpha(100)
.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)
.setTextFont(R.font.champagne)
.setTextShadow(0.1f, 5, 5, Color.BLUE);
WatermarkBuilder.create(this, backgroundBitmap)
.loadWatermarkText(watermarkText)
.getWatermark()
.setToImageView(backgroundView);
You can easily add an image type watermark or a text watermark like this, and the library size is smaller than 30Kb.

I tried a few libraries mentioned in other posts, like this, but unfortunately it is missing, and not downloadable now. So I followed AndroidLearner 's answer above, but after tweaking the code a little bit, for those of you who are having trouble rotating the watermark, and what values are valid for the various methods of Paint class, so that the text shows rotated at an angle(like most of the company watermarks do), you can use the below code.
Note that, w and h are the screen width and height respectively, which you can calculate easily, there are tons of ways you can find on stackoverflow only.
public static Bitmap waterMarkBitmap(Bitmap src, String watermark) {
int w = src.getWidth();
int h = src.getHeight();
Bitmap mutableBitmap = Utils.getMutableBitmap(src);
Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, mutableBitmap.getConfig());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0f, 0f, null);
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.RED);
paint.setTextSize(92f);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setAlpha(70); // accepts value between 0 to 255, 0 means 100% transparent, 255 means 100% opaque.
paint.setUnderlineText(false);
canvas.rotate(45, w / 10f, h / 4f);
canvas.drawText(watermark, w / 10f, h / 4f, paint);
canvas.rotate(-45, w / 10f, h / 4f);
return result;
}
It rotates the text watermark by 45 degrees, and places it at the centre of the bitmap.
Also note that, in case you are not able to get watermark, it might be the case that the bitmap you are using as source is immutable. For this worst case scenario, you can use below method to create a mutable bitmap from an immutable one.
public static Bitmap getMutableBitmap(Bitmap immutableBitmap) {
if (immutableBitmap.isMutable()) {
return immutableBitmap;
}
Bitmap workingBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(immutableBitmap);
return workingBitmap.copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888, true);
}
I found above method inside here. I have tested using both the methods in my application, and it works perfectly after I added above tweaks. Try it and let me know if it works or not.

use framelayout. put two imageviews inside the framelayout and specify the position of the watermark imageview.

Center text on a bitmap

I'm trying to draw a text on the center of a bitmap however I can't do it even though I used align.center. The code is:
public Bitmap drawTextToBitmap(Context gContext, String gText) {
Resources resources = gContext.getResources();
float scale = resources.getDisplayMetrics().density;
Bitmap bitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(resources, R.drawable.blank_marker);
android.graphics.Bitmap.Config bitmapConfig =
bitmap.getConfig();
// set default bitmap config if none
if(bitmapConfig == null) {
bitmapConfig = android.graphics.Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
}
// resource bitmaps are imutable,
// so we need to convert it to mutable one
bitmap = bitmap.copy(bitmapConfig, true);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
// new antialised Paint
Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
// text color - #3D3D3D
paint.setColor(Color.rgb(61, 61, 61));
// text size in pixels
paint.setTextSize((int) (25 * scale));
// text shadow
paint.setShadowLayer(1f, 0f, 1f, Color.WHITE);
// draw text to the Canvas center
Rect bounds = new Rect();
paint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER);
paint.getTextBounds(gText, 0, gText.length(), bounds);
int x = (bitmap.getWidth() - bounds.width())/2;
int y = (bitmap.getHeight() + bounds.height())/2;
canvas.drawText(gText, x * scale, y * scale, paint);
return bitmap;
}
What am I doing wrong?

It's a lot more straightforward than you think.
Draw the text at half the Bitmap's width and height (center point) in combination with Paint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER).
The alignment property will take care of the rest.

I guess none of the answers given above are good enough so I post my answer. Try it out guys, it will work on all devices and is not complex at all:
String text = "Text"; //your string
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
paint.setColor(activity.getResources().getColor(R.color.white));
paint.setTextSize(30);
// draw text to the Canvas center
Rect boundsText = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), boundsText);
int x = (bitmap.getWidth() - boundsText.width()) / 2;
int y = (bitmap.getHeight() + boundsText.height()) / 2;
canvas.drawText(text, x, y, paint);

Where is the text drawing? The issue might be since you changed the text align to Align.CENTER. Your code calculating x and y assumes the text rendering is using Align.LEFT, I believe.
Either use setTextAlign(Align.CENTER) and render at the actual bitmap center, or use setTextAlign(Align.LEFT) and use the current x and y calculations you are using.