Calculating the height of text in Android
While Android has numerous methods for sizing text, as far as I can see, none of them let you pass in a max width to get the height of the text once it wraps.
This is relatively simple to do on iOS via – sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode:.
For Android, I came up with the following convenience method to do it:
With this, you can just do int height = getTextHeight("text", 160, 12.0f, Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD); and you’re set.
Android Hardware Acceleration Bug: canvas.drawBitmap NullPointerException
Despite what Google says, there’s still a bug in the Android SDK when doing the following:
As per the Android docs, the second parameter is supposed to accept null. Passing in null works fine on devices without hardware acceleration, but will result in a crash if the device has HA. Google claims this bug was resolved in ICS, but it’s definitely still present as of today.
As long as you provide the src rect, everything works fine:
