Canvas.drawText(...) does not print linebreak

Question

Hi all

I tried to write some text on a surface view I created. It works fine, if title is false, and there is no linebreak added to the text. But if I add a title and therefore a linebreak, the linebreak isn't printed as expected, but instead there is this symbol [] printed.

Any hints why?

@Override
public void drawObject() {
String text = "";
if (title) {
   text = getGameBoard().getGame().getForeignProfile().getName() + "\n";
}
text = text + getScoreAsString();
getGameBoard().getCanvas().drawText(text, 0, text.length(), getPosition().getX(), getPosition().getY(), getPaint());
}

Answer 1

The [] symbol is probably your newline character. For whatever reason, drawText() doesn't know how to handle newlines.

Either strip the newline, or call drawText() twice with an offset Y-position to simulate a newline.