Draw text inside a filled rectangle using Canvas Android

Question

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)         


        

Answer 1

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
    }