TextView supports a background drawable:
<TextView
android:id="@+id/top_bar"
android:background="@drawable/header"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="foo bar"
/>
A FrameLayout with an ImageView and TextView inside might work as well
if you need some feature of ImageView.
On Nov 18, 9:56 pm, pablitoman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm using Android 1.6.
>
> I'm wondering if there's a simple way to put text on top of an
> ImageView element.
> Specifically, I'd like to have text overlayed on top of a rectangle
> filled with a color gradient.
>
> I have the following in my XML layout:
>
> <ImageView android:id="@+id/top_bar" android:src="@drawable/header"
> android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> android:text="foo bar" />
>
> but the text specified in android:text doesn't show up in my view.
>
> Any thoughts on how to overlay text on top of an image?
>
> There might be a simpler way to do this, so I'm open to alternative
> suggestions but I haven't been able to find anything via the google.
>
> Thanks!!
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