How to draw big thin text in android

Question

I need to draw a single character in my view as BIG thin text, as shown in the image below (text as simple lines)

But my code below gives me the following image (text as form)

Paint dPaint = new Paint(); dPaint.setAntiAlias(true); dPaint.setDither(true); dPaint.setColor(Color.RED); dPaint.setTextSize(getWidth()*.8F); dPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); dPaint.setStrokeWidth(1); canvas.drawText("A",getWidth()*.3F, getHeight()*.6F, dPaint); 

I tried various properties of paint and stroke, but none worked. I also read in java 2D text drawn as a form.

Is there a way to draw text (character in particular) as lines, not form. Also, the text should be large.

Answer 1

I think there are only two ways to achieve your requirement.

Use your own font with your font style and use it in your application as shown below

  TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView); Typeface customFont = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "ThinText.ttf"); text.setTypeface(customFont); 

Another method is to draw a figure that indicates the symbol as a line by calculating the coordinates needed on the path to draw this alphabet or number.

I hope this can help you.

Answer 2

You increase strokewidth , then fineness increases like this:

 dPaint.setStrokeWidth(5);