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Draw text on bitmap in the bottom left corner

I'm trying to draw some text on bitmap with a fixed position (Bottom left corner) no matter how bitmap size different.

Code below works but, the Text is drawn on the center of the bitmap

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();
    if (bitmapConfig == null) {
        bitmapConfig = android.graphics.Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
    }
    bitmap = bitmap.copy(bitmapConfig, true);
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
    Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
    paint.setColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.fujiColor));
    paint.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/DS-DIGI.TTF"));
    paint.setTextSize((int) (14 * scale));
    paint.setShadowLayer(1f, 0f, 1f, getResources().getColor(R.color.fujiShadowColor));
    Rect bounds = new Rect();
    paint.getTextBounds(gText, 0, gText.length(), bounds);
    int x = (bitmap.getWidth() - bounds.width()) / 2;
    int y = (bitmap.getHeight() + bounds.height()) / 2;
    canvas.drawText(gText, x, y, paint);
    return bitmap;
}

What I need is something similar to this :

enter image description here

Thank you.

Solution

  • As mentioned in the official docs, the text is drawn taking the (x,y) values as origin. Change the x,y values. Something along the following lines should work.

    int horizontalSpacing = 24;
int verticalSpacing = 36;
int x = horizontalSpacing;//(bitmap.getWidth() - bounds.width()) / 2;
int y = bitmap.getHeight()-verticalSpacing;//(bitmap.getHeight() + bounds.height()) / 2;