android- animate text on canvas

Question

Hi

I am working with android, trying to animate some text (make it bigger and smaller over time) and I have the following issue. I cant animate the text using the following:

int textSize = calculateTextSize();

paint.setTextSize(textSize);

canvas.drawText("Some Text", 10, 25, paint);

calculateTextSize , shrinks or enlarge the text size over time.

The issue is that the text doesnt animate, but 'jumps' over from size 20, to 19 to 18, etc Its not an animation, but changing the text of sizes.

How I can animate text on the canvas on andriod?

Thanks

Answer 1

You should use Canvas.scale() instead. This will let you do smooth animations.