drawText on a lower right position

Question

how can I draw a text in the lower right of the screen?

heres my code on drawtext.
EDIT

Rect textBounds = new Rect();
    if(this != null) {
        timeCounter.start();
        int time= timeCounter.getTimeSeconds();
        String timetxt= String.format("%02d:%02d", time/60, time%60);
        timer.getTextBounds(timetxt, 0, text.length(), textBounds);
        canvas.drawText(timetxt, -textBounds.left, -textBounds.top, timer);
        }

I just follow some tutorials but it doesn't work. can someone help me on this logic? thanks in advance !

Answer 1

i hope you are trying to do this within a views ondraw callback.

if so, 2 things you might want to consider.

• use simpleDateFormat instead of formatting the string by yourself. its much easier.
• you are drawing outside of your view.

sind upper left corner is 0,0 any value for textbounds.left or textbounds.right > 0 would at least partially hide your text.

if you want this to be drawn at the lower right corner you need to call this:

canvas.drawText(timetxt, this.getWidth()-textBounds.left, this.getHeight()-textBounds.top, timer);

if you are not doing this in a onDrawCallback, move it into one ;)