Bad text look on Canvas

Question

I draw text throw TextPaint on Canvas. And in some cases it looks terible:

240*320 API 7

240*320 API 15

In some cases good:

720*1280 API 15

I use: TextPaint paint = new TextPaint();

paint.setTextSize(height/20);

canvas.drawText("Just text", x, y, paint);

What do I wrong?

Blackbelt · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-28 08:31:12Z

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set the antialiasing flag to your Paint object. The flag is ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG

TextPaint paint = new TextPaint(TextPaint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);

answered May 28, 2013 at 8:31

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It uses anti-aliasing to basically smooth out the letters on your canvas. You can read more about aliasing here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing