Draw multi-line text to Canvas

Question

I found another way using static layouts. The code is here for anyone to refer to:

TextPaint mTextPaint=new TextPaint();
StaticLayout mTextLayout = new StaticLayout(mText, mTextPaint, canvas.getWidth(), Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1.0f, 0.0f, false);

canvas.save();
// calculate x and y position where your text will be placed

textX = ...
textY = ...

canvas.translate(textX, textY);
mTextLayout.draw(canvas);
canvas.restore();

Just iterate through each line:

int x = 100, y = 100;
for (String line: text.split("\n")) {
      canvas.drawText(line, x, y, mTextPaint);
      y += mTextPaint.descent() - mTextPaint.ascent();
}

Unfortunately Android doesn't know what \n is. What you have to do is strip the \n and then offset the Y to get your text on the next line. So something like this:

canvas.drawText("This is", 100, 100, mTextPaint);
canvas.drawText("multi-line", 100, 150, mTextPaint);
canvas.drawText("text", 100, 200, mTextPaint);

I have written complete example

colors.xml

  <color name="transparentBlack">#64000000</color>

java class

 public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.amit);
        ImageView imageView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        imageView.setImageBitmap(drawTextToBitmap(this, bm, "Name: Kolala\nDate: Dec 23 2016 12:47 PM, \nLocation: 440 Banquets & Restaurents"));

    }

  public Bitmap drawTextToBitmap(Context gContext,
                                   Bitmap bitmap,
                                   String gText) {
        Resources resources = gContext.getResources();
        float scale = resources.getDisplayMetrics().density;

        android.graphics.Bitmap.Config bitmapConfig =
                bitmap.getConfig();
        // set default bitmap config if none
        if(bitmapConfig == null) {
            bitmapConfig = android.graphics.Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
        }
        // resource bitmaps are imutable,
        // so we need to convert it to mutable one
        bitmap = bitmap.copy(bitmapConfig, true);

        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
        // new antialised Paint
        Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);

        // text color - #3D3D3D
        paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
        // text size in pixels
        paint.setTextSize((int) (25 * scale));
        // text shadow
        paint.setShadowLayer(1f, 0f, 1f, Color.WHITE);

        // draw text to the Canvas center
        Rect bounds = new Rect();

        int noOfLines = 0;
        for (String line: gText.split("\n")) {
           noOfLines++;
        }

        paint.getTextBounds(gText, 0, gText.length(), bounds);
        int x = 20;
        int y = (bitmap.getHeight() - bounds.height()*noOfLines);

        Paint mPaint = new Paint();
        mPaint.setColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.transparentBlack));
        int left = 0;
        int top = (bitmap.getHeight() - bounds.height()*(noOfLines+1));
        int right = bitmap.getWidth();
        int bottom = bitmap.getHeight();
        canvas.drawRect(left, top, right, bottom, mPaint);

        for (String line: gText.split("\n")) {
            canvas.drawText(line, x, y, paint);
            y += paint.descent() - paint.ascent();
        }

        return bitmap;
    }
}

This is my solution that is based on @Dave's answer (thanks btw ;-) )

import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Paint;

public class mdCanvas
{
    private Canvas m_canvas;

    public mdCanvas(Canvas canvas)
    {
        m_canvas = canvas;
    }

    public void drawMultiline(String str, int x, int y, Paint paint)
    {
        for (String line: str.split("\n"))
        {
              m_canvas.drawText(line, x, y, paint);
              y += -paint.ascent() + paint.descent();
        }
    }
}

I tried to inherit Canvas, but it doesn't really let you. So this is an in-between class!