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Android Vertical TextView / Custom Angle Text By Radu Motisan Posted on December 15th, 2010 , 1955 Views (Rate 2.21)

It is easy to derive the View class and create a custom Textview that can support custom text angles, including vertical text!

class CustomTextView extends View { ... @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setTypeface(m_tTypeface); paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL); paint.setColor(m_nColor); //paint.setShadowLayer(1, 0, 1, Color.parseColor("#000000")); paint.setTextSize(m_nSize); canvas.rotate(m_nRotationAngle,m_nRotationW,m_nRotationH); canvas.drawText(m_szText, 0, 0, paint); super.onDraw(canvas); } ...   The resulting CustomTextView Class can be used as simple as a normal TextView class:   CustomTextView tv3 = new CustomTextView(this); //etc.   See the left pic to understand the potential of this technique.

You need to be careful when selecting the rotation center, as it can put your text off-screen:

 
tv3.SetRotation(-90,120,90); //angle and rotation center 
 

The first argument is the angle, it is in degrees, it takes negative values as well ( -90 = 270 , if you imagine the trigonometric circle). The other two parameters are the rotation center (x,y) coordinates.

Here's the complete code:
CustomAngleText

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December 15th, 2010 | Tags: Android, custom, TextView, Vertical | Category: Android, Software |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL

3 Responses to “Android Vertical TextView / Custom Angle Text”

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   Anh Tuan:
   August 1st, 2011 at 6:53 am

   Thank u very much! Save me much time to create on my own.

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   Dinesh:
   August 12th, 2011 at 7:47 am

   how to assign the resulted custom view in my already defined layout

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   AgeOfAndroid:
   October 28th, 2012 at 8:27 pm

   Hello

   Thanks for your golden posting…
   I am building textview that user can rotate text using his/her two figures.
   To solve, I used your code.

   But it is not resized according to rotated text size….
   So after rotating, text is croped by old textview size.

   How to solve that?
   I sent you my code.

   public class AngledTextView extends TextView {
   private short mAngle;

   public AngledTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
   super(context, attrs);
   mAngle = 0;
   }

   public void setAngle(short angle) {
   mAngle = (short) Math.max(0, Math.min(360, angle));
   this.invalidate();
   }

   @Override
   protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
   Paint paint = new Paint();
   paint.setTypeface(this.getTypeface());
   paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
   paint.setTextSize(this.getTextSize());
   canvas.rotate(mAngle, this.getWidth()/2, this.getHeight()/2);
   canvas.drawText(this.getText().toString(), 0, 0, paint);
   super.onDraw(canvas);
   }
   }

   What’s wrong?…..

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