Adding text to ImageView in Android

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I want to use an ImageView to show some message in a fancy way   How do I add text to an ImageView

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Best Option to use text and image in a single view try this    lt TextView         android id    id textView1          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content           android drawableBottom   drawable ic launcher           android text  TextView    gt

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I know this question has been and gone  but if anyone else stumbled across this I wanted to let them know  This may sound an unintuitive thing to do but you could use a button with clickable set to false or what ever  This is because a button allows one to set drawableLeft  drawableRight  drawableTop etc in addition to text      lt Button   android id    id button1    android layout width  match parent    android layout height  match parent    android background   drawable border box1    android drawableLeft   drawable ar9 but desc    android padding  20dp    android text   string ar4 button1    android textColor   color white    android textSize  24sp    gt    New Info  A button can have icons in drawableLeft  drawableRight  drawableTop  and drawableBottom  This makes a standard button much more flexible than an image button  The left  right  top etc is the relation to the text in the button  You can have multiple drawables on the button for example one left  one right and the text in the middle

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You can also use a TextView and set the background image to what you wanted in the ImageView   Furthermore if you were using the ImageView as a button you can set it to click-able  Here is some basic code for a TextView that shows an image with text on top of it    lt TextView     android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent      android background   drawable your image      android text  your text here    gt

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lt FrameLayout         android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  match parent          android layout gravity  center horizontal          android layout weight  30   gt            lt ImageButton             android id    id imgbtnUploadPendingPods              android layout width  match parent              android layout height  match parent              android contentDescription   string hello world              android src   drawable upload icon    gt            lt TextView             android id    id textView1              android layout width  match parent              android layout height  wrap content              android gravity  center horizontal              android paddingTop  30dp              android text   string pendingpods              android textAppearance   android attr textAppearanceSmall    gt       lt  FrameLayout gt

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You can use the TextView for the same purpose  But if you want to use the same with the ImageView then you have to create a class and extends the ImageView then use onDraw   method to paint the text on to the canvas  for more details visit to http   developer android com reference android graphics Canvas html

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To add a text to your ImageView you can do this    lt RelativeLayout gt     Only works inside a RelativeLayout      lt ImageView         android id    id myImageView          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android src   drawable myImageSouce    gt        lt TextView         android id    id myImageViewText          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout alignLeft    id myImageView          android layout alignTop    id myImageView          android layout alignRight    id myImageView          android layout alignBottom    id myImageView          android layout margin  1dp          android gravity  center          android text  Hello          android textColor   000000    gt    lt  RelativeLayout gt

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Use drawalbeLeft Right Bottom Top in TextView to render image at respective position                       lt TextView         android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android drawableLeft   drawable image              android text   strings text             gt

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To draw text directly on canvas do the following    Create a member Paint object in myImageView constructor  Paint mTextPaint   new Paint     Use canvas drawText in your myImageView onDraw   method   canvas drawText  My fancy text   xpos  ypos  mTextPaint      Explore Paint and Canvas class documentation to add fancy effects

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With a FrameLayout you can place a text on top of an image view  the frame layout holding both an imageView and a textView   If that s not enough and you want something more fancy like  drawing  text  you need to draw text on a canvas - a sample is here  How to draw RTL text  Arabic  onto a Bitmap and have it ordered properly

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