How to calculate string font width in pixels?

Question

I want to calculate string font width in pixels in android. I am having string array and I am appending all these array elements to form one string. so I have to set fixed spacing in between two consecutive array element.i am placing this final string into textview. Finally I am adding this textview to tablerow. In short i want to view table structure with title and values. I have seen many post over here but not getting solution for this.

Thanks in advance...!!!

Answer 1

Looks like there is a measureText method available on Paint. I also found an example:

mPaint = new Paint();
mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
mPaint.setStrokeWidth(5);
mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
mPaint.setTextSize(64);
mPaint.setTypeface(Typeface.create(Typeface.SERIF, Typeface.ITALIC));
// ...
float w = mPaint.measureText(text, 0, text.length());

Answer 2

Thanks Jake for the working solution, yet I found this to work for me too:

someText = "Lorem Ipsum";
TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
float w = myTextView.getPaint().measureText(someText);

Getting the Paint directly from the TextView that I'm going to work with makes me feel that the anwser will be more accurate.