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android canvas draw text on circle radius based

I need to make lucky wheel like view, and there texts are drawn regarding the radius, as you can see image below. ( there you can see red line, I want to draw texts along that red line )
This is the result I want to achieve but, right now with my method, it just draws text based on circle like below
private void drawText(Canvas canvas, float tempAngle, float sweepAngle, String text) {
Path path = new Path();
Log.d("mytag", "tempAngle = " + tempAngle + ", sweepAngle = " + sweepAngle);
path.addArc(range, tempAngle, sweepAngle);
float textWidth = textPaint.measureText(text);
int hOffset = (int) (radius * Math.PI / mWheelItems.size() / 2 - textWidth / 2);
int vOffset = (radius / 2 / 3) - 15; // here 15 is distance from image
canvas.drawTextOnPath(text, path, hOffset, vOffset, textPaint);
}

Instead of creating an arc to draw the text on, you need a path from the outside of the circle to the center. I think you need something like this
int radius = 180;
float centerX = width/2f;
float centerY = height/2f
double radians = radius * Math.PI / 180;
float x = (float)Math.sin(radians);
float y = (float)-Math.cos(radians);
Path path = new Path();
path.moveTo(x,y);
path.lineTo(centerX, centerY);
canvas.drawTextOnPath(text, path, hOffset, vOffset, textPaint);

First, find the slice centre points.
Kotlin sample snippet
val arcCenter = startAngle + (arcProgress / 2)
//middle point radius is half of the radius of the circle
val pointRadius = size.width / 4
/*Calculate the x & y coordinates
* find points using angle and radius
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_coordinate_system#Converting_between_polar_and_Cartesian_coordinates
* */
val x =
(pointRadius * cos(Math.toRadians(arcCenter.toDouble()))) +
size.center.x
val y =
(pointRadius * sin(Math.toRadians(arcCenter.toDouble()))) +
size.center.y
Then Rotate your canvas to the arch centre angle, Draw your text and restore the canvas to a normal position
it.nativeCanvas.rotate( arcCenter, x, y)
it.nativeCanvas.drawText(...)
it.nativeCanvas.rotate( -arcCenter, x, y)

Moving an object along a path ontouch

I have a stroke circle path and a little fill circle path and i want to move the little circle along the stroke circle path with touch, the little circle should not be outside the stroke circle. How can i do this ? Please help me

Your touch might be slighty outside of your circle path. To provide object position at the circle, you can make the next:
find position of touch against circle center
dx = touch.x - center.x
dy = touch.y - center.y
find distance from the center
dist = sqrt(dx*dx +dy*dy)
make new position at the same disraction form center but at circle radius distance
newx = center.x + radius * dx / dist
newy = center.y + radius * dy / dist

How to draw watchface 'ticks' on a square watch?

I currently have this snippet generating the ticks around the outside of and android wear watchface
float innerMainTickRadius = mCenterX - 35;
for(int tickIndex = 0; tickIndex < 12; tickIndex++) {
float tickRot = (float) (tickIndex * Math.PI * 2 / 12);
float innerX = (float) Math.sin(tickRot) * innerMainTickRadius;
float innerY = (float) -Math.cos(tickRot) * innerMainTickRadius;
float outerX = (float) Math.sin(tickRot) * mCenterX;
float outerY = (float) -Math.cos(tickRot) * mCenterX;
canvas.drawLine(mCenterX + innerX, mCenterY + innerY, mCenterX + outerX, mCenterY + outerY, mTickPaint);
}
Which generates the ticks well on a round watchface but on a square it turns out like this:
but I'd like them to not be circular, but instead fit the shape a bit more suitably, e.g:
Is there a standard way to do this? I'm guessing I can't use trig again...

Of course you use geometry and trig. For example any line you put on the clock face you want to point to the center so one part will be the given (x,y) and the other will be arctan2(cy-y,cx-x) giving you the angle from the point you have towards the center (cx,cy) then simply draw the line in the direction of the center of a given length r, by drawing the line from x,y to cos(angle) * r, sin(angle) * r.
However, given your sample image you might want to draw the line from x,y to x+r,y then rotate the canvas by angle so that you can draw those numbers tweaked like that. Be sure to do canvas.save() before tweaking the canvas' matrix and canvas.restore() after the tweak.
This leaves the math of whatever shape you want to draw your ticks from and the positions thereto. You can do this within a Path. So define the path for a rounded rectangle and then use the PathMeasure class to get the getPosTan() and then ignore the tangent and just use the position it gives you to find your position around a rounded rectangle. That or simply calculate those positions as the positions through either a line segment or a bezier section depending on the decided shape.
For example:
static final int TICKS = 12;
static final float TICKLENGTH = 20;
In the draw routine,
float left = cx - 50;
float top = cy - 50;
float right = cx + 50;
float bottom = cy + 50;
float ry = 20;
float rx = 20;
float width = right-left;
float height = bottom-top;
Path path = new Path();
path.moveTo(right, top + ry);
path.rQuadTo(0, -ry, -rx, -ry);
path.rLineTo(-(width - (2 * rx)), 0);
path.rQuadTo(-rx, 0, -rx, ry);
path.rLineTo(0, (height - (2 * ry)));
path.rQuadTo(0, ry, rx, ry);
path.rLineTo((width - (2 * rx)), 0);
path.rQuadTo(rx, 0, rx, -ry);
path.rLineTo(0, -(height - (2 * ry)));
path.close();
PathMeasure pathMeasure = new PathMeasure();
pathMeasure.setPath(path,true);
float length = pathMeasure.getLength();
float[] pos = new float[2];
float r = TICKLENGTH;
for (int i = 0; i < TICKS; i++) {
pathMeasure.getPosTan(i * (length/TICKS),pos,null);
double angle = Math.atan2(cy - pos[1], cx - pos[0]); //yes, y then x.
double cos = Math.cos(angle);
double sin = Math.sin(angle);
canvas.drawLine(pos[0], pos[1], (float)(pos[0] + cos * r), (float)(pos[1] + sin * r), paint);
}
Admittedly it looks like:
So it would take a lot more work to get it looking like your image. But, it's totally doable. The path measure trick thing will work for any shape. I avoided using path.addRoundRect because of the Lollipop+ restriction. You can see my answer to that question here. And the other answers which are plenty fine to how to draw a rounded rectangle-esque shape. You can, if you would like to write an envelope function simply scale your current picture to the envelope of the rectangle according to the factor t, as it goes around the clock.

The angle is a function of the position now. I'm not immediately seeing the trick for getting a closed form in this case. But in the most general case, you could end up just storing the position of each tickmark, then you're just drawing the line that goes through that point and the center. so the angle at second i is just
theta(i)=arctan(y_pos(i) / x_pos(i))
assuming the center has coordinates (0,0). In this case, you only need to store the positions for 8 consecutive ticks because the face is periodic every 90 degrees and symmetric about the diagonals as well.

How to check the touch points of the circles as in the image in Libgdx?

I am facing problem in getting the touch point of the circle for the game i was developing
I tried to solve this by getting the points as below
public Actor hit(float x, float y, boolean touchable){
if(!this.isVisible() || this.getTouchable() == Touchable.disabled)
return null;
// Get center-point of bounding circle, also known as the center of the Rect
float centerX = _texture.getRegionWidth() / 2;
float centerY = _texture.getRegionHeight() / 2;
// Calculate radius of circle
float radius = (float) (Math.sqrt(centerX * centerX + centerY * centerY))-5f;
// And distance of point from the center of the circle
float distance = (float) Math.sqrt(((centerX - x) * (centerX - x))
+ ((centerY - y) * (centerY - y)));
// If the distance is less than the circle radius, it's a hit
if(distance <= radius) return this;
// Otherwise, it isn't
return null;}
I am getting hit positions inside circle but also the points around it near black spots, i only need the touch points near circle.
Would some body suggest the approach for achieving this.

Im guessing that you are comparing local rect coordinates (ie centerX, centerY) with screen coordinates x,y parameters that you are feeding to the function.
So you probably want to subtract the rect's x,y position from the parameters x,y so your parameters are in local coordinates.
So:
float lLocalX = x-rectX (assuming this is the rects x position on the screen)
float lLocalY = y-rectY (assuming this is the rects y position on the screen)
now you can compare them!
float distance = (float) Math.sqrt(((centerX - lLocalX ) * (centerX - lLocalX ))
+ ((centerY - lLocalY ) * (centerY - lLocalY )));

You can have a Circle object in your Actor: http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/nightlies/docs/api/com/badlogic/gdx/math/Circle.html
Then check if the circle contains that point using the circle.contains(float x, float y) function.
Basically it'll look something like this:
public Actor hit(float x, float y, boolean touchable){
if(!this.isVisible() || this.getTouchable() == Touchable.disabled)
return null;
if (circle.contains(x,y)) return this;
return null;
}
Of course the downside is that if this is a dynamic object and it moves around a lot, then you'd have to constantly update the circles position. Hope this helps :)

Center a pin in midpoint of a square with four coordinates (x1,y1) (x2,y2) (x3,y3), (x4,y4)

I have successfully mark select a region from my activity based on four coordinates. My question is how can i calculate the midpoint of this square and set an image in the middle of the square region selected.
should i use
ImageView image = (ImageView)findViewById(this);
To clarify, how can i place an image in the middle of a square in android.

The center is at
xmid = (x1 + x2 + x3 + x4)/4
ymid = (y1 + y2 + y3 + y4)/4
To place an object in the center, you have to subtract half it's size
left = (x1 + x2 + x3 + x4)/4 - w/2
top = (y1 + y2 + y3 + y4)/4 - h/2