Text Rendered over bitmap

Question

Hello,

I 'd like to know how can I render a text over a 48x48 bitmap in my android application, considering sometimes the text exceeds the bitmap width .In such cases I need to render only a part of the text followed by dots such that all fits the available width !

Thanks !

Update Edit : the code I use is :

Bitmap renderSurface = icon.createBitmap(); Canvas canvas = new Canvas(renderSurface);

Paint paint  = new Paint();
paint.setTextSize(10);
if(paint.measureText(nativeName)>canvas.getWidth())
    nativeName = getClippedString(paint,nativeName,canvas.getWidth() );

canvas.drawText(nativeName,33,0, paint);

return renderSurface;  

Answer 1

You have to create another Bitmap (unless the original Bitmap is mutable) and then create a Canvas to draw on that Bitmap. Finally, just call drawText() on the Canvas. To know where to ellipsize your text, you can use the Paint's class text measurement methods.