I used the following code to draw text on a view canvas:
Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setTextSize(14); paint.setColor(0xFFFFFFFF); paint.setAntiAlias(true); @Override public void onDraw(Canvas canvas){ super.onDraw(canvas); canvas.drawText("abcdef", 0, 0, paint); } Question:
The text is displayed in a dark grey color instead of white color (0xFFFFFFFF). Why so?
I tried to use setShadowLayer() or paint.setAntiAlias(false) in order to solve the problem, unfortunately without success.
Set this in res/value
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <color name="white">#FFFFFF</color> </resources> Then put this in your code-
int myColor = context.getResources().getColor(com.example.test.R.color.white); paint.setColor(myColor); 
There must be some other place where your paint color (or alpha?) is being modified. I implemented your code as follows, and the text color is white.
private void drawText() { LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.main_view); if (layout != null){ View myView = new MyView(this); myView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK); layout.addView(myView, 300, 100); } } private class MyView extends View{ public Paint paint; public MyView(Context context) { super(context); paint = new Paint(); paint.setTextSize(25); paint.setColor(0xFFFFFFFF); paint.setAntiAlias(true); } @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas){ super.onDraw(canvas); canvas.drawText("abcdef", 0, 25, paint); } } 
I am not sure whether android support this hex code of color ( 0xFFFFFFFF ), replace 0x to # of 0xFFFFFFFF and use
paint.setColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFFFF")); instead of
paint.setColor(0xFFFFFFFF); Hope this helps you.
Color set like this in place of your code use this
Paint Paint = new Paint(); Paint.setAntiAlias(true); Paint.setDither(true); Paint.setColor(Color.WHITE); Paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); Paint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND); Paint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND); Paint.setStrokeWidth(10); see here is good example blogspot.in
After some investigations, I found the problem and the solution:
My mistake was, that I used in addition to the onDraw() method a semi-transparent background color setBackgroundColor(0x88000000) in a child view, which leads to the strange results, i.e. grey text color instead of white text color. The text color is now white, when I remove the method setBackgroundColor() from the child view.
Thank you all for your ideas and your proposals !
