How to rotate TextView without clipping its bounds?

Question

I\'m trying to rotate my subclass of TextView using canvas.rotate():

canvas.save();

final int w = getWidth();
final int h = getHeight(         


        

Answer 1

You could check out https://github.com/grantland/android-autofittextview Especially its refitText() method.

Rotationg your Textview should after all result in the invocation of onMeasure() method, where all the magic begins.

Answer 2

I think that the entire problem here, is that you are using WRAP_CONTENT. The clip rect for the view, when you do that, is the size of the text content. The simplest way to fix the problem is to use padding. Something like this, works fine for me:

<com.example.twistedtext.TwistedTextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="30dp"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    twistedtext:rotation="30.0f"
    android:text="@string/hello_world" />

Of course, if you do it this way, you'll have to choose a slightly different padding for each content. If you can't do that, override onMeasure, so that does exactly what TextView's onMeasure does, then adds corresponding padding, as necessary for the rotation.

Added later: Actually, this was kinda fun to figure out. I have the following onMeasure, that works pretty well:

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    int w = getMeasuredWidth();
    int h = getMeasuredHeight();
    w = (int) Math.round(w * cosA + h * sinA);
    h = (int) Math.round(h * cosA + w * sinA);
    setMeasuredDimension(w, h);
}

The only remaining problem is that the text gets wrapped according to the pre-rotation dimensions. You'd have to fix that too...

sinA and cosA are computed when mAngle is set.

Answer 3

At the first look solution provided by G. Blake Meike is a good way to start, however there is a lot of problems upcome.

To overcome problems there is an another way. It's quite simple, but generally shouldn't be used (since I've just deleted unneccesary for me stuff from original android source). To take control over drawing of concrete View you can override drawChild method of it's parent (yes, you need your own subclass of ViewGroup or something more concrete like FrameLayout). Here is an example of my solution:

@Override
protected boolean drawChild(Canvas canvas, View child, long time) {
    //TextBaloon - is view that I'm trying to rotate
    if(!(child instanceof TextBaloon)) {
        return super.drawChild(canvas, child, time);
    }

    final int width = child.getWidth();
    final int height = child.getHeight();

    final int left = child.getLeft();
    final int top = child.getTop();
    final int right = left + width;
    final int bottom = top + height;

    int restoreTo = canvas.save();

    canvas.translate(left, top);

    invalidate(left - width, top - height, right + width, bottom + height);
    child.draw(canvas);

    canvas.restoreToCount(restoreTo);

    return true;
}

Main idea is that I'm granting non-clipped canvas to child.

Answer 4

Ok, if you cant rotate textView in your current view hierarch, you should animate it in another one.

Create a bitmap represantation of your textView. Use a holder for this bitmap like ImageView. Connect the imageView to another layout which is on top and where it won't be cropped. Hide your textView. Run animation on ImageView. When animation finished, update textView representation, show textView and remove ImageView.

I cant find the exact code example of what you want, but take a look at this one. The interecting place is:

mWindowManager = (WindowManager)context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
mWindowManager.addView(YOUR_VIEW_WITH_ANIMATION, mWindowParams);