How to calculate string font width in pixels?

Question

I want to calculate string font width in pixels in android. I am having string array and I am appending all these array elements to form one string. so I ha

Answer 1

Thanks Jake for the working solution, yet I found this to work for me too:

someText = "Lorem Ipsum";
TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
float w = myTextView.getPaint().measureText(someText);

Getting the Paint directly from the TextView that I'm going to work with makes me feel that the anwser will be more accurate.