Android draw text into rectangle on center and crop it if needed

Question

I want to draw text into rectangle on center (horizontally and vertically). If there is too much of a text that crop it what do not fit into rect.

I have try to do it as this example show, but without luck.

Any ideas?

Check this, it is some what same as what you need, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13285510/how-to-overlay-image-with-multiline-texttext-will-be-in-center-of-the-canvas/13287621#13287621 — Abhishek Nandi, Mar 18 '13 at 13:57
Try this, it's work for me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11120392/android-center-text-on-canvas — fabio.cappelli.spot, Feb 22 '17 at 15:37
This work for me, try it. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11120392/android-center-text-on-canvas](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11120392/android-center-text-on-canvas) — fabio.cappelli.spot, Feb 27 '17 at 08:23

Dandroid · Answer 1 · 2013-03-18T14:16:47.287

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Try this

private void drawRectText(String text, Canvas canvas, Rect r) {

    textPaint.setTextSize(20);
    textPaint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER);
    int width = r.width();

    int numOfChars = textPaint.breakText(text,true,width,null);
    int start = (text.length()-numOfChars)/2;
    canvas.drawText(text,start,start+numOfChars,r.exactCenterX(),r.exactCenterY(),textPaint);
}

edited Mar 18 '13 at 14:16

answered Mar 18 '13 at 13:52

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This draws text with align center but only horizontally. So the question is how to do it vertically also. – ddmytrenko Sep 26 '13 at 14:30

Mehmet Emre · Answer 2 · 2013-03-17T23:45:40.373

this function worked for me.

private void drawDigit(Canvas canvas, int textSize,  float cX, float cY, int color, String text) {
        Paint tempTextPaint = new Paint();
        tempTextPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
        tempTextPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);

        tempTextPaint.setColor(color); 
        tempTextPaint.setTextSize(textSize); 

        float textWidth = tempTextPaint.measureText(text);
        //if cX and cY are the origin coordinates of the your rectangle 
        //cX-(textWidth/2) = The x-coordinate of the origin of the text being drawn 
        //cY+(textSize/2) =  The y-coordinate of the origin of the text being drawn 

        canvas.drawText(text, cX-(textWidth/2), cY+(textSize/2), tempTextPaint);
    }

Android draw text into rectangle on center and crop it if needed

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