How to have a circular TextView

Question

I have been trying to make a circular TextView. Its a circle in which I want to accomodate whole space above a circular bubble as shown in image below.

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Answer 1

You need to create a custom view, extending from TextView probably, setting the circle as background image, and calculate the text width / break the lines manually according to the width of the text.

To calculate the width of a string, see How to calculate string font width in pixels?

Some math and calculations is required of course to measure the available space per line; but I think that's the only way, as there's no standard component out there to do it.

To place the text onto the view, use drawText of the Canvas class.