Thank you very much! On Nov 18, 11:00 pm, Lance Nanek <lna...@gmail.com> wrote: > TextView supports a background drawable: > <TextView > android:id="@+id/top_bar" > android:background="@drawable/header" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="fill_parent" > android:text="foo bar" > /> > > A FrameLayout with an ImageView and TextView inside might work as well > if you need some feature of ImageView. > > On Nov 18, 9:56 pm, pablitoman <thebusy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, I'm using Android 1.6. > > > I'm wondering if there's a simple way to put text on top of an > > ImageView element. > > Specifically, I'd like to have text overlayed on top of a rectangle > > filled with a color gradient. > > > I have the following in my XML layout: > > > <ImageView android:id="@+id/top_bar" android:src="@drawable/header" > > android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" > > android:text="foo bar" /> > > > but the text specified in android:text doesn't show up in my view. > > > Any thoughts on how to overlay text on top of an image? > > > There might be a simpler way to do this, so I'm open to alternative > > suggestions but I haven't been able to find anything via the google. > > > Thanks!!
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