Adding text to ImageView in Android

Question

I want to use an ImageView to show some message in a fancy way.

How do I add text to an ImageView?

user_1269202 · Answer

To draw text directly on canvas do the following:

Create a member Paint object in myImageView constructor
```
Paint mTextPaint = new Paint();
```

Use canvas.drawText in your myImageView.onDraw() method:

canvas.drawText("My fancy text", xpos, ypos, mTextPaint);

Explore Paint and Canvas class documentation to add fancy effects.