Draw text on canvas using a TextView X and Y positions

Question

I've an activity contains TextView and a WallpaperService where I draw some text on the canvas and display it as live wallpaper, I'm trying to draw a text on canvas using a TextView X and Y coordinates. Using the below code, I'm able to move the TextView around the screen.

    textView.setOnTouchListener((view, event) -> {
        switch (event.getActionMasked()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                dX = view.getX() - event.getRawX();
                dY = view.getY() - event.getRawY();
                lastAction = MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN;
                break;

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                view.setY(event.getRawY() + dY);
                view.setX(event.getRawX() + dX);
                lastAction = MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE;
                break;

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                x = (float) event.getRawX();
                y = (float) event.getRawY();
                break;

            default:
                return false;
        }
        return true;
    });

Draw text based on the X and Y coordinates :

 Rect rect = new Rect();
 Paint timePaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
 timePaint.setTextSize(DigitalClockHelper.getScaledTextSize(115));
 timePaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
 timePaint.setTypeface(Typeface.create(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.BOLD));
 timePaint.getTextBounds(time, 0, time.length(), rect);
 timePaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
 canvas.drawText(time, x, y, timePaint);

My Issue:

When I draw the text on the canvas it's drawn correctly but in a different place, just a little bit higher where it should be drawn.

**My question **

How I can draw text on WallpaperService exactly where the TextView placed in the activity.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Thanks to @MikeM. For helping me to fix my issue by providing an example

However, I've ended up using the following :

int y = view.getY() + view.getBaseline()

Also, since the status bar and the navigation bar are hidden in the live wallpaper preview, I've made the activity full screen to make it similar to the live wallpaper preview.