I'm making a Custom Square Progress bar with rounded corners using android Path class.
Problem
I'm facing a problem while changing the starting position of path for drawing a Round Rectangle when I call path.addRoundRect(...)
Code
RectF rect = new RectF(0, 0, w, h);
float inset = paint.getStrokeWidth();
rect.inset(inset, inset);
path.addRoundRect(rect, 15, 15, Path.Direction.CW);
float length = new PathMeasure(path, false).getLength();
float intervals{0, 0}
intervals[0] = intervals[1] = length;
PathEffect effect = new DashPathEffect(intervals, length - length * progress / 100);
paint.setPathEffect(effect);
canvas.draw(path, paint);
In below picture when the rectangle in drawn it starts drawing from red arrow but I want it to start from the position pointed by green arrow.
So I'm trying to center a text within it's boundaries. I'm creating a bitmap the size of which is relative to letter String boundaries.
Rect bounds = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(s, 0, s.length(), bounds);
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(bounds.width() + 1, (int)(paint.descent() - paint.ascent()), Config.ARGB_8888); //+1 to prevent width = 0, which throws exception
Then I draw the string to that bitmap.
canvas.drawText(s, 1, (i)*paint.descent() - (i+1)*paint.ascent(), paint);
The problem is that with some Typefaces like https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alex-brush some letters are partially cut off. The bitmap width seems to be alright but letters aren't drawn to the center.
paint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER);
makes it even worse.
The image below is result of using the code and typeface above with paint's default textAlignment. Drawn String is "j".
I want to create a rounded graph that will display a range of values from my app. The values can be classified to 3 categories: low, mid, high - that are represented by 3 colors: blue, green and red (respectively).
Above this range, I want to show the actually measured values - in a form of a "thumb" over the relevant range part:
The location of the white thumb over the range arc may change, according to the measured values.
Currently, I'm able to draw the 3-colored range by drawing 3 arcs over the same center, inside the view's onDraw method:
width = (float) getWidth();
height = (float) getHeight();
float radius;
if (width > height) {
radius = height / 3;
} else {
radius = width / 3;
}
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setStrokeWidth(arcLineWidth);
paint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
center_x = width / 2;
center_y = height / 1.6f;
left = center_x - radius;
float top = center_y - radius;
right = center_x + radius;
float bottom = center_y + radius;
oval.set(left, top, right, bottom);
//blue arc
paint.setColor(colorLow);
canvas.drawArc(oval, 135, 55, false, paint);
//red arc
paint.setColor(colorHigh);
canvas.drawArc(oval, 350, 55, false, paint);
//green arc
paint.setColor(colorNormal);
canvas.drawArc(oval, 190, 160, false, paint);
And this is the result arc:
My question is, how do I:
Create a smooth gradient between those 3 colors (I tried using
SweepGradient but it didn't give me the correct result).
Create the overlay white thumb as shown in the picture, so that I'll be able to control where to display it.
Animate this white thumb over my range arc.
Note: the 3-colored range is static - so another solution can be to just take the drawable and paint the white thumb over it (and animate it), so I'm open to hear such a solution as well :)
I would use masks for your first two problems.
1. Create a smooth gradient
The very first step would be drawing two rectangles with a linear gradient. The first
rectangle contains the colors blue and green while the second rectangle contains green
and red as seen in the following picture. I marked the line where both rectangles touch each other
black to clarify that they are infact two different rectangles.
This can be achieved using the following code (excerpt):
// Both color gradients
private Shader shader1 = new LinearGradient(0, 400, 0, 500, Color.rgb(59, 242, 174), Color.rgb(101, 172, 242), Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
private Shader shader2 = new LinearGradient(0, 400, 0, 500, Color.rgb(59, 242, 174), Color.rgb(255, 31, 101), Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
private Paint paint = new Paint();
// ...
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
float width = 800;
float height = 800;
float radius = width / 3;
// Arc Image
Bitmap.Config conf = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888; // See other config types
Bitmap mImage = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf); // This creates a mutable bitmap
Canvas imageCanvas = new Canvas(mImage);
// Draw both rectangles
paint.setShader(shader1);
imageCanvas.drawRect(0, 0, 400, 800, paint);
paint.setShader(shader2);
imageCanvas.drawRect(400, 0, 800, 800, paint);
// /Arc Image
// Draw the rectangle image
canvas.save();
canvas.drawBitmap(mImage, 0, 0, null);
canvas.restore();
}
As your goal is having a colored arc with rounded caps, we next need to define the area of
both rectangles that should be visible to the user. This means that most of both rectangles
will be masked away and thus not visible. Instead the only thing to remain is the arc area.
The result should look like this:
In order to achieve the needed behavior we define a mask that only reveals the arc area within
the rectangles. For this we make heavy use of the setXfermode method of Paint. As argument
we use different instances of a PorterDuffXfermode.
private Paint maskPaint;
private Paint imagePaint;
// ...
// To be called within all constructors
private void init() {
// I encourage you to research what this does in detail for a better understanding
maskPaint = new Paint();
maskPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));
imagePaint = new Paint();
imagePaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_OVER));
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// #step1
// Mask
Bitmap mMask = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf);
Canvas maskCanvas = new Canvas(mMask);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setShader(null);
paint.setStrokeWidth(70);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
paint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
final RectF oval = new RectF();
center_x = 400;
center_y = 400;
oval.set(center_x - radius,
center_y - radius,
center_x + radius,
center_y + radius);
maskCanvas.drawArc(oval, 135, 270, false, paint);
// /Mask
canvas.save();
// This is new compared to step 1
canvas.drawBitmap(mMask, 0, 0, maskPaint);
canvas.drawBitmap(mImage, 0, 0, imagePaint); // Notice the imagePaint instead of null
canvas.restore();
}
2. Create the overlay white thumb
This solves your first problem. The second one can be achieved using masks again, though this
time we want to achieve something different. Before, we wanted to show only a specific area (the arc)
of the background image (being the two rectangles). This time we want to do the opposite:
We define a background image (the thumb) and mask away its inner content, so that only
the stroke seems to remain. Applied to the arc image the thumb overlays the colored arc with
a transparent content area.
So the first step would be drawing the thumb. We use an arc for this with the same radius as
the background arc but different angles, resulting in a much smaller arc. But becaus the
thumb should "surround" the background arc, its stroke width has to be bigger than the
background arc.
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// #step1
// #step2
// Thumb Image
mImage = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf);
imageCanvas = new Canvas(mImage);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setStrokeWidth(120);
final RectF oval2 = new RectF();
center_x = 400;
center_y = 400;
oval2.set(center_x - radius,
center_y - radius,
center_x + radius,
center_y + radius);
imageCanvas.drawArc(oval2, 270, 45, false, paint);
// /Thumb Image
canvas.save();
canvas.drawBitmap(RotateBitmap(mImage, 90f), 0, 0, null);
canvas.restore();
}
public static Bitmap RotateBitmap(Bitmap source, float angle)
{
Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.postRotate(angle);
return Bitmap.createBitmap(source, 0, 0, source.getWidth(), source.getHeight(), matrix, true);
}
The result of the code is shown below.
So now that we have a thumb that is overlaying the background arc, we need to define the mask
that removes the inner part of the thumb, so that the background arc becomes visible again.
To achieve this we basically use the same parameters as before to create another arc, but
this time the stroke width has to be identical to the width used for the background arc as
this marks the area we want to remove inside the thumb.
Using the following code, the resulting image is shown in picture 4.
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// #step1
// #step2
// Thumb Image
// ...
// /Thumb Image
// Thumb Mask
mMask = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf);
maskCanvas = new Canvas(mMask);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setStrokeWidth(70);
paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));
final RectF oval3 = new RectF();
center_x = 400;
center_y = 400;
oval3.set(center_x - radius,
center_y - radius,
center_x + radius,
center_y + radius);
maskCanvas.drawBitmap(mImage, 0, 0, null);
maskCanvas.drawArc(oval3, 270, 45, false, paint);
// /Thumb Mask
canvas.save();
canvas.drawBitmap(RotateBitmap(mMask, 90f), 0, 0, null); // Notice mImage changed to mMask
canvas.restore();
}
3. Animate the white thumb
The last part of your question would be animating the movement of the arc. I have no solid
solution for this, but maybe can guide you in a useful direction. I would try the following:
First define the thumb as a ImageView that is part of your whole arc graph. When changing
the selected values of your graph, you rotate the thumb image around the center of the background
arc. Because we want to animate the movement, just setting the rotation of the thumb image would
not be adequate. Instead we use a RotateAnimation kind of like so:
final RotateAnimation animRotate = new RotateAnimation(0.0f, -90.0f, // You have to replace these values with your calculated angles
RotateAnimation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, // This may be a tricky part. You probably have to change this to RELATIVE_TO_PARENT
0.5f, // x pivot
RotateAnimation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF,
0.5f); // y pivot
animRotate.setDuration(1500);
animRotate.setFillAfter(true);
animSet.addAnimation(animRotate);
thumbView.startAnimation(animSet);
This is far from final I guess, but it very well may aid you in your search for the needed
solution. It is very important that your pivot values have to refer to the center of your
background arc as this is the point your thumb image should rotate around.
I have tested my (full) code with API Level 16 and 22, 23, so I hope that this answer at least
gives you new ideas on how to solve your problems.
Please note that allocation operations within the onDraw method are a bad idea and should
be avoided. For simplicity I failed to follow this advise. Also the code is to be used as
a guide in the right direction and not to be simply copy & pasted, because it makes heavy
use of magic numbers and generally does not follow good coding standards.
I would change a bit of the way you draw your view, by looking on the original design, instead of drawing 3 caps I would draw just 1 line, that way the SweepGradient will work.
This migth be a bit tricky, you have 2 options:
create a Path with 4 arcs
draw 2 arcs- one is the big white (filled with white so you still want to use Paint.Style.STROKE) and another on top of that make it fill transparent, you can achieve it with PorterDuff xfermode, it probably take you couple of tries until you get that without clearing the green circle too.
I imagine you want to animate thumb position, so just use simple Animation that invalidate the view and draw the thumb view position accordingly.
Hopes this helps
Create a gradient than follow a path is not so simple.
So I can suggest you to use some libraries than already did it.
Include the library:
dependencies {
...
compile 'com.github.paroca72:sc-gauges:3.0.7'
}
Create the gauge in XML:
<com.sccomponents.gauges.library.ScArcGauge
android:id="#+id/gauge"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
Your code:
ScArcGauge gauge = this.findViewById(R.id.gauge);
gauge.setAngleSweep(270);
gauge.setAngleStart(135);
gauge.setHighValue(90);
int lineWidth = 50;
ScCopier baseLine = gauge.getBase();
baseLine.setWidths(lineWidth);
baseLine.setColors(Color.parseColor("#dddddd"));
baseLine.getPainter().setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
ScCopier progressLine = gauge.getProgress();
progressLine.setWidths(lineWidth);
progressLine.setColors(
Color.parseColor("#65AAF2"),
Color.parseColor("#3EF2AD"),
Color.parseColor("#FF2465")
);
progressLine.getPainter().setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
Your result:
You can find something more complex on this site:
ScComponents
I'm using a Canvas to create a Drawable with some background and some text. The drawable is used as a compound drawable inside an EditText.
The text is drawn via drawText() on the canvas, but I do have an issue with the y-position of the drawn text in some cases. In those cases parts of some characters are cut off (see image links).
Characters without positioning issue:
http://i50.tinypic.com/zkpu1l.jpg
Characters with positioning issue, text contains 'g', 'j', 'q', etc.:
http://i45.tinypic.com/vrqxja.jpg
You can find a code snippet to reproduce the issue below.
Does any expert know how to determine the proper offset for the y position?
public void writeTestBitmap(String text, String fileName) {
// font size
float fontSize = new EditText(this.getContext()).getTextSize();
fontSize+=fontSize*0.2f;
// paint to write text with
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setStyle(Style.FILL);
paint.setColor(Color.DKGRAY);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setTypeface(Typeface.SERIF);
paint.setTextSize((int)fontSize);
// min. rect of text
Rect textBounds = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), textBounds);
// create bitmap for text
Bitmap bm = Bitmap.createBitmap(textBounds.width(), textBounds.height(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
// canvas
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bm);
canvas.drawARGB(255, 0, 255, 0);// for visualization
// y = ?
canvas.drawText(text, 0, textBounds.height(), paint);
try {
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, out);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
I think it's probably a mistake to assume that textBounds.bottom = 0. For those descending characters, the bottom parts of those characters are probably below 0 (which means textBounds.bottom > 0). You probably want something like:
canvas.drawText(text, 0, textBounds.top, paint); //instead of textBounds.height()
If your textBounds is from +5 to -5, and you draw text at y=height (10), then you'll only see the top half of the text.
I believe that if you want to draw text near the upper left corner you should do this:
canvas.drawText(text, -textBounds.left, -textBounds.top, paint);
And you can move around the text by summing the desired amount of displacement to the two coordinates:
canvas.drawText(text, -textBounds.left + yourX, -textBounds.top + yourY, paint);
The reason why this works (at least for me) is that getTextBounds() tells you where drawText() would draw the text in the event that x=0 and y=0. So you have to counteract this behavior by subtracting the displacement (textBounds.left and textBounds.top) introduced by the way text is handled in Android.
In this answer I elaborate a little more on this topic.
I want to fill the area outside a rectangle on a canvas. I use
canvas.drawRect(pTopLeft.x, pTopLeft.y, pBotRight.x, pBotRight.y, paint);
to draw the rectangle, but can't figure out how to fill outside the rectangle/clip.
Thanks
Geoff
Thanks ted and trojanfoe - the neatest solution I've come up with is
Point pTopLeft = new Point();
Point pBotRight = new Point();
//TODO:set x,y for points
Rect rHole = new Rect(pTopLeft.x, pTopLeft.y, pBotRight.x, pBotRight.y);
//assume current clip is full canvas
//put a hole in the current clip
canvas.clipRect(rHole, Region.Op.DIFFERENCE);
//fill with semi-transparent red
canvas.drawARGB(50, 255, 0, 0);
//restore full canvas clip for any subsequent operations
canvas.clipRect(new Rect(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight())
, Region.Op.REPLACE);
You aren't going to fill outside the clip; that's the kind of thing clip is there to prevent! If you want to fill the space outside a rect and inside the drawing layer bounds, construct four auxiliary rects:
Rect above = new Rect(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), pTopLeft.y);
Rect left = new Rect(0, pTopLeft.y, pTopLeft.x, pBotRight.y);
Rect right = new Rect(pBotRight.x, pTopLeft.y, canvas.getWidth(), pBotRight.y);
Rect bottom = new Rect(0, pBotRight.y, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());
Then fill these.
ICS and above ...
canvas.clipRect(rHole, Region.Op.DIFFERENCE);
XOR, Difference and ReverseDifference clip modes are
ignored by ICS if hardware acceleration is enabled.
Just disable 2D hardware acceleration in your view:
myView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
Reference Android: Howto use clipRect in API15
You can't draw outside of the Canvas; that area belongs to the parent View. Do you have the ability to subclass the parent View and do your drawing in that class instead?
If you want to draw outside of the Canvas clip then you'll have to invalidate() the areas you are interested in.