Is it possible to write vertically in a textview in android?

Question

Let's say you have a normal TextView, with "Stackoverflow" written in it, Is it possible to rotate the TextView by -90°, to have the S at the bottom and the W at the top of the screen? Of course I could write my text as an image, rotate it and use it that way, but I am interested in the text right now. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can set your textview as you would normally do

for example:

 <TextView android:id="@+id/txtview"     android:layout_height="fill_parent"     android:layout_width="wrap_content" /> 

and write a function in your activity to

• reverse the characters in your text
• insert \n after every characters

and then set the text to the TextView.

If you dont want to insert the \n, you will have to set the size of android:layout_width and play with font size not to have 2 characters fitting on the same line and no truncation

Edit If I have understood you correctly, you can get what you want by using animation.

For example

Under res/anim/myanim.xml:

<rotate  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"            android:fromDegrees="0"             android:toDegrees="-90"            android:pivotX="50%"            android:duration="0" /> 

You will have to play with this file to define where you want your text view to be placed.

In your activity:

  TextView t = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtview);   String txt = "Stackoverflow";            t.setText(txt);    RotateAnimation ranim = (RotateAnimation)AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.myanim);   ranim.setFillAfter(true); //For the textview to remain at the same place after the rotation   t.setAnimation(ranim);