Set leading of paint / fontmetrics in android - android

I'm using a custom font and adding text to a canvas with a Paint object in android, e.g:
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setARGB(255, 255, 255, 255);
paint.setTextSize(29);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setTypeface(font);
paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_OVER)); // Text Overlapping Pattern
final TextPaint tp = new TextPaint(paint);
final TextPaint tpStroke = new TextPaint(strokePaint);
// canvas.translate(15, 5);
canvas.translate(20, 5);
StaticLayout sl = new StaticLayout(textOne.getText().toString(), tp, (finalBitmapOne.getWidth()-10), Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1.0f, 0.0f, false);
sl.draw(canvas);
I'm not happy with the leading / line height, how can I adjust it?
I can get the leading via:
FontMetrics fmPaint = paint.getFontMetrics();
fmPaint.leading;
But how can I adjust it?

From the documentation for getFontMetrics (emphasis mine):
Return the font's recommended interline spacing, given the Paint's settings for typeface, textSize, etc. If metrics is not null, return the fontmetric values in it.
You don't set this to change spacing, you read this to determine what the recommended spacing should be. You'll have to reposition coordinates manually yourself, i.e. translating the canvas again between drawing each line.

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Canvas drawtext positioning

I am creating a drawing tool, where user add text to image. While making the text draw to bitmap via canvas position is not being set properly.
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
paint.setColor(Color.RED);
paint.setTypeface(tf);
paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.LEFT);
paint.setTextSize(30);
int xPos = layoutTextViewContainer.getLeft();
int yPos = layoutTextViewContainer.getTop();
canvas.drawText(text, xPos, yPos, paint);
Paint
Rect textRect = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), textRect);
textRect.offset(0, -textRect.top);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bm);
layoutTextViewContainer holds the edit text.
Screen shot for more clarification.
Black text is written and Red text is preview of embed in image
Got the solution. the values should be pixel independent
convert xPos and yPos as below before passing to drawText
xPos = (int) (xPos / getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);
yPos = (int) (yPos / getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);
Its even better to use Drawing cache and save that to any file location.
In this case we dont have to much bother about positioning.
Wrap all in one layout and get the
view.getDrawingCache()

Android drawText including text wrapping

I am currently creating an image editor and am attempting to draw text on top of on image using canvas.drawText(). So far I have been successful in doing this but when the user enters text that is too long, the text just continues on one line out of the page and doesn't wrap itself to the width of the screen. How would I go about doing this? I have tried using a static layout but cannot seem to get it to work, has anyone got a tutorial to do this?
My function for drawing on a canvas using static layout:
public Bitmap createImage(float scr_x,float scr_y,String user_text){
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(image);
scr_x = 100;
scr_y = 100;
final TextPaint tp = new TextPaint(Color.WHITE);
canvas.save();
StaticLayout sl = new StaticLayout("" + user_text, tp, originalBitmap.getWidth(), Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1.0f, 0.0f, false);
sl.draw(canvas);
return image;
}
Okay, I've updated my code, but when I try to draw on the image nothing happens at all, I have no idea why either:
public Bitmap createImage(String user_text) {
// canvas object with bitmap image as constructor
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(image);
TextPaint tp = new TextPaint();
tp.setColor(Color.RED);
tp.setTextSize(50);
tp.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER);
tp.setAntiAlias(true);
StaticLayout sl = new StaticLayout("" + user_text, tp,
canvas.getWidth(), Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1, 0, false);
canvas.translate(100, 100);
sl.draw(canvas);
return image;
}
Is staticlayout not meant to be used to draw on canvas?
Yes, StaticLayout is what you're meant to use to draw multi-line text on a Canvas. Save yourself a world of pain and don't think about breaking text yourself -- you're on the right path.
I'm not sure about the bitmap problem, but your second code above worked just fine to draw text on a canvas for me.
Learn to use StaticLayout , then draw the Layout object onto a canvas using the Layout.draw() method.
References
public Bitmap drawMultilineTextToBitmap(Context gContext,
int gResId,
String gText) {
// prepare canvas
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 antialiased Paint
TextPaint paint=new TextPaint(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);
// set text width to canvas width minus 16dp padding
int textWidth = canvas.getWidth() - (int) (16 * scale);
// init StaticLayout for text
StaticLayout textLayout = new StaticLayout(
gText, paint, textWidth, Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER, 1.0f, 0.0f, false);
// get height of multiline text
int textHeight = textLayout.getHeight();
// get position of text's top left corner
float x = (bitmap.getWidth() - textWidth)/2;
float y = (bitmap.getHeight() - textHeight)/2;
// draw text to the Canvas center
canvas.save();
canvas.translate(x, y);
textLayout.draw(canvas);
canvas.restore();
return bitmap;
}
source : http://www.skoumal.net/en/android-drawing-multiline-text-on-bitmap/
You should handle it yourself, calculating the text size and wrapping the content in some way (break line at max width or wrap last word).
I already did it on Java SE with the FontMetrics, never for Android; but you should take a look:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Paint.FontMetrics.html
As pointed by Lisa, StaticLayout is the way to go to measure text wrapping.

Draw text inside a filled rectangle using Canvas Android

How to draw a filled rectangle with specified bounds and inside that rectangle text to be drawn using Canvas Android ?? I tried
mPaint.setColor(Color.GREEN);
canvas.drawText(mText, x, y, mPaint);
mPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
canvas.drawRect(x, y, x + w, y + h, mPaint);
but text is not inside of that rectangle. Can any buddy tell me how to draw a rectangle surrounding specified text with consideration of text size ??
Here i have hardcoded x and y values. You can change them
mpaint= new Paint();
mpaint.setColor(Color.RED);
mpaint.setStyle(Style.FILL);
paint2= new Paint();
paint2.setColor(Color.GREEN);
paint2.setTextSize(50); //set text size
float w = paint2.measureText(s)/2;
float textSize = paint2.getTextSize();
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
paint2.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
canvas.drawRect(300-w, 300 - textsize, 300 + w, 300, mpaint);
canvas.drawText(s, 300, 300 ,paint2); //x=300,y=300
}
Edit :
Its bad a idea to call measureText in onDraw. You can do that outside of onDraw.
There is a video on also about performance and why you should avoid allocations in onDraw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAK5acHQ53E
Resulting snap shot
If you have to center the text inside de rect you have use this code
mpaint= new Paint();
mpaint.setColor(Color.RED);
mpaint.setStyle(Style.FILL);
paint2= new Paint();
paint2.setColor(Color.GREEN);
paint2.setTextSize(50); //set text size
float w = paint2.measureText(s)/2;
float textSize = paint2.getTextSize();
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
paint2.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
Rect rect = new Rect(300-w, 300 - textsize, 300 + w, 300);
canvas.drawRect(rect, mpaint);
canvas.drawText(s, rect.centerX(), rect.centerY() ,paint2); // center text inside rect
}
This might be very late for this particular query but I think many will find this answer useful. So, the problem with the Canvas for any CustomView is that, you can get the width for a particular text, but it's not that easy to get the height of the text. Also if you are using canvas.drawText(....) with simple Paint object, you can not draw multi line text. So, use the below code within your onDraw() method.
String displayText = "Hello World";
int mainTextPositionX = getWidth() / 2 ;
int mainTextPositionY = getHeight() / 2;
StaticLayout textStaticLayout;
TextPaint textPaint;
textPaint = new TextPaint();
textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
textPaint.setColor(Color.BLUE);
textPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
textPaint.setTextSize(convertDpToPixel(30, context));
textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
highlightedRectPaint = new Paint();
highlightedRectPaint.setStrokeWidth(12);
highlightedRectPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
highlightedRectPaint.setColor(Color.RED);
highlightedRectPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
textStaticLayout = StaticLayout
.Builder
.obtain(displayText, 0, displayText.length(), textPaint, (int) textPaint.measureText(displayText))
.build();
}else{
textStaticLayout = new StaticLayout(
displayText, textPaint, (int)textPaint.measureText(displayText), Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER, 1.0f, 0.0f, false);
}
Rect highlightedTextBorderRect = new Rect();
highlightedTextBorderRect.top = mainTextPositionY-20;
highlightedTextBorderRect.left = mainTextPositionX-
((int)textPaint.measureText(displayText)/2)-20;
highlightedTextBorderRect.right = mainTextPositionX+
((int)textPaint.measureText(displayText)/2) + 20;
highlightedTextBorderRect.bottom = mainTextPositionY+
(int)textStaticLayout.getHeight()+20;
canvas.save();
canvas.translate(mainTextPositionX, mainTextPositionY);
textStaticLayout.draw(canvas);
canvas.restore();
canvas.drawRect(highlightedTextBorderRect,highlightedRectPaint);
just make sure that, you declare all the objects and variable outside of the draw() method. And this will draw a rectangle outline around the text with multi line support. If you want the rectangle to have a fill, then just use the highlightedRectPaint and change the setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL). Hope that helps.

Getting rendered text height, which is equivalent to rendered text width using paint.measureText

I have the following code to draw text.
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setTextSize(400);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setTextAlign(Align.LEFT);
paint.setStyle(Style.FILL);
String text = "698";
Rect bounds = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds);
int textWidth = bounds.width();
int textHeight = bounds.height();
Bitmap originalBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(textWidth,
textHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas singleUseCanvas = new Canvas(originalBitmap);
singleUseCanvas.drawColor(Color.BLUE);
singleUseCanvas.drawText(text, 0, textHeight, paint);
canvas.drawBitmap(originalBitmap, 0, 0, null);
}
I am getting undesired outcome, which its right and bottom sides are being cropped.
I avoid right side cropping, by using
float textWidth = paint.measureText(text);
Bitmap originalBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap((int)(textWidth + 0.5),
textHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
I am getting the following improvement
Yet. My bottom still being cropped. May I know what is the correct way to obtained rendered text height, which is analogy to rendered text width using paint.measureText?
I think i would be helpful to have a look at this post:
Android Paint: .measureText() vs .getTextBounds()
It have a good survey about sizing of rendered text and also text height which is your concern.

measuring text on scaled canvas

I've been struggling with text measuring and scaled canvases.
When the canvas is unscaled, getTextBounds and measureText deliver accurate results. However, when the canvas is scaled both methods do not deliver results that match the actual size of a printed text.
For testing I've created a subclass of View with the following onDraw method:
final float scaling = 0.51f;
final int fontSize = 50;
canvas.scale(scaling, scaling);
font = Typeface.create("Arial", Typeface.NORMAL);
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(0xff4444ff);
paint.setTypeface(font);
paint.setTextSize(fontSize);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
int x = 10;
int y = 100;
final String text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit...";
canvas.drawText(text, x, y, paint);
// draw border using getTextBounds
paint.setColor(0xffff0000);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
paint.setTypeface(font);
paint.setTextSize(fontSize);
Rect bounds = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds);
bounds.offset(x, y);
paint.setColor(0x80ffff00);
canvas.drawRect(bounds, paint);
// draw border using measureText
float w = paint.measureText(text);
bounds.left = x;
bounds.right = (int) Math.ceil(bounds.left + w);
bounds.top -= 10;
bounds.bottom += 10;
paint.setColor(0x8000ffff);
paint.setPathEffect(new DashPathEffect(new float[] { 10, 10 }, 0));
canvas.drawRect(bounds, paint);
for scaling = 0.5 I get the following output:
for scaling = 0.51 the following result is shown:
The yellow solid border marks the rect delivered from getTextBounds, the dashed cyan rect is rendered using the width delivered from measureText.
As you can see, the text with scaling = 0.5 is smaller than the measured dimensions and with scaling=0.51 the drawn text is way bigger than the measured dimension.
Any help is appreciated!
Ok, just found out how to circumvent the issue.
The problem is that the Paint does not know about the Canvas scaling. Therefore measureText and getTextBounds deliver the unscaled result. But since the font size does not scale linearly (however, the drawn rect does ), you have to make up for that effect manually.
So the solution would be:
// paint the text as usual
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setTypeface(font);
paint.setTextSize(fontSize);
canvas.drawText(text, x, y, paint);
// measure the text using scaled font size and correct the scaled value afterwards
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setTypeface(font);
paint.setTextSize(fontSize * scaling);
float w = paint.measureText(text) / scaling;
Using Mono for Android I had to use display metrics as shown here:
public override System.Drawing.SizeF MeasureString(MyFont f, string text)
{
Rect r = new Rect();
f.DrawingFont.GetTextBounds(text, 0, text.Length, r);
//Manual scaling using DisplayMetrics due to Android
//issues for compatibility with older versions
Android.Util.DisplayMetrics metrics = new Android.Util.DisplayMetrics();
GetDisplay.GetMetrics(metrics);
return new System.Drawing.SizeF(r.Width(), r.Height() * metrics.Density);
}
Where f.DrawingFont is an Androdid.Text.TextPaint GetDisplay is:
private Display GetDisplay()
{
return this.GetSystemService(Android.Content.Context.WindowService).JavaCast<Android.Views.IWindowManager>().DefaultDisplay;
}
And the same method in Java is:
private Display getDisplay() {
return ((WindowManager) getContext().getSystemService(
Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
}

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