One way to do this is to create a TextView, call measure() then layout() on it and then call its draw() method to draw into a Bitmap. This will take care of all the breaking, BiDi, etc. Note that TextView uses the Paint APIs under the hood to measure text.
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Latimerius <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking into localising an OpenGL app into several languages. I'm not > too worried about short strings like button labels, however the welcome > screen contains a paragraph or two of text and the tutorial has a couple of > 2-3 lines text strings. Currently, they are pre-rendered and distributed > as PNGs but ideally, they should be rendered on-the-fly to save texture > space and avoid scaled text. > > To achieve that, it seems necessary to handle line breaking properly. > However, I couldn't find an API in Android to help with that. I'm aware > of Paint.breakText() but it seems too primitive for the task - it actually > doesn't seem to handle proper line breaking at all. For Western languages, > it should be mostly fine just to back off to the first space from what > breakText() returns and break the line there. The problem is how to deal > with Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean - also Thai would be > nice), and later on with RTL languages, too. > > Some googling gave me the impression that in general, people like me > shouldn't try to tackle the problem themselves - it's too complex and > belongs into an operating system/application framework anyway. > > Is there something in Android platform to help turn a paragraph of text > into a decent PNG of specified dimensions? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
