I suppose it depends on what you're doing.  I use getTextWidths() to
underline some text in an overridden TextView's onDraw() before the
call to super.onDraw().

On Sep 3, 6:25 pm, hap 497 <hap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you. But how can i specify a certain TextAppearance before
> callingPaint.getTextWidths()?
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:19 PM, greg<sep...@eduneer.com> wrote:
>
> > Have you read aboutPaint.getTextWidths()?
>
> > On Sep 3, 5:15 pm, hap 497 <hap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Is there any api to find out the width of a string when rendered using
> >> a certain text appearance?
>
> >> For example, I want to find out how long is the width if I render a
> >> string 'hello world'  using "?android:attr/textAppearanceLargeInverse"
> >> programatically in Java Code.
>
> >> Thank you.
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