I don't know what you are trying to do, but if it's just simple layout
stuff you may be making life more difficult for yourself than
necessary. Try one of these things instead:
a: use a textView and set it's background property (either to a color
#argb or to a drawable). This has limitations, but for a single text
item it should work fine. Depending on what you want, you can tweak
the layout_width/layout_height parameters to get pretty close. An .xml
example:
<TextView
android:id = "@+id/text1"
android:background = "@+drawable/filename"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello"
android:textSize = "12pt"
android:textStyle= "bold"
android:textColor= "#001"
/>
b: use a layout(relativeLayout, etc) and set it's background/size then
put the textView or anything else you want into it. You could also
leave the background blank and put the drawable into the layout
directly.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
android"
android:id = "@+id/container1"
android:background = "@+drawable/image"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
>
<TextView
android:id = "@+id/text1"
android:text="@string/hello"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
There is an awful lot of flexibility, so without knowing what you are
after ... it's hard to say. Probably check the beginners forum at:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners and there will be a
lot more information on this sort of thing.
Hope that helps.
On Aug 4, 6:54 am, wr1472 <wadud....@xqoob.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just started looking at developing for Google Android and want
> to draw a rectangle with some text in it that I then want to position
> where i want on screen.
>
> I have got as far as drawing a rectangle on screen using a
> ShapeDrawable and RectShape I now want to put some text in the
> rectangle. How can I best do this? Should I be looking at somehow
> adding a textView to the RectShape? Or am i going down the the wrong
> avenue completely?
>
> Some pointers would help greatly!
>
> Thanks
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