Kent is right, the easy way is with TextView, but if you want the
flexibility of placing your text and rectangle anywhere (like with a
bouncing text+rectangle on the screen), then the Canvas class has
drawText() and drawRect().
Yusuf Saib
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On Aug 4, 11:41 pm, Kent wrote:
> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> 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"
> >
> 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"
> />
>
>
> 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-beginnersand there will be a
> lot more information on this sort of thing.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Aug 4, 6:54 am, wr1472 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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