How to draw text on canvas?

August 30, 2023 by Tarik

You will have to use the drawText method of the Canvas class.

Paint paint = new Paint(); 
canvas.drawPaint(paint); 
paint.setColor(Color.BLACK); 
paint.setTextSize(16); 
canvas.drawText("My Text", x, y, paint);

Here’s the relevant documentation about it:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canvas.html#drawText(java.lang.String, float, float, android.graphics.Paint)