Android Canvas.drawText

Question

I have a view, I'm drawing with the Canvas object in the onDraw(Canvas canvas) method. My code is:

Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setColor(Color.WHITE); paint.setStyle(Style.FILL); canvas.drawPaint(paint);  paint.setColor(android.R.color.black); paint.setTextSize(20); canvas.drawText("Some Text", 10, 25, paint); 

The problem is the text doesn't show through the background, what am I doing wrong? If I remove the canvas.drawPaint(paint) and paint.setColor(android.R.color.black) you can see the text on the screen.....

Answer 1

Worked this out, turns out that android.R.color.black is not the same as Color.BLACK. Changed the code to:

Paint paint = new Paint();  paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);  paint.setStyle(Style.FILL);  canvas.drawPaint(paint);   paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);  paint.setTextSize(20);  canvas.drawText("Some Text", 10, 25, paint);  

and it all works fine now!!