How to display Text in Android Canvas ShapeDrawable with in the RectShape or OvalShape?

Question

I\'m trying to display Text in RectShape which uses ShapeDrawable to display in Canvas.

I\'m able to display RectShape in this code, but looking for how to display t

Answer 1

The best option for me is to create a custom TextDrawable that handles properly how to display a piece of text. Then in your CustomDrawableView in your onDraw(Canvas c) method you can call it to display the text and the oval.

Take a look at this answer I wrote recently as it contains how to do it properly.