how to rotate text using canvas in Android

Question

i was draw a pie chart using canvas in android and using the below code i draw a text on each slice of that pie chart (draw arc on path), now i want to draw the text length wise i.e. from center to end of the each slice,so how to rotate the arc using start and sweep angle.

p.addArc(mEventsRect, fStartAngle, fSweepAngle);
mBgPaints.setColor(iTextColor);
canvas.drawTextOnPath(sTextValue, p, fHOffSet, fVOffSet, mBgPaints);

Answer 1

You can try this snippet: (from: http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials/how-use-canvas-your-android-apps-part-2)

int x = 75;
int y = 185;
paint.setColor(Color.GRAY);
paint.setTextSize(25);
String rotatedtext = "Rotated helloandroid :)";

//Draw bounding rect before rotating text:

Rect rect = new Rect();
paint.getTextBounds(rotatedtext, 0, rotatedtext.length(), rect);
canvas.translate(x, y);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);

canvas.drawText(rotatedtext , 0, 0, paint);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
canvas.drawRect(rect, paint);

canvas.translate(-x, -y);


paint.setColor(Color.RED);
canvas.rotate(-45, x + rect.exactCenterX(),y + rect.exactCenterY());
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
canvas.drawText(rotatedtext, x, y, paint);