October 2014 - Tech Tips & Tricks

How To Display Text In A Bitmap In Android

October 28, 2014 by blogmeister·0 Comments

This method places a centered text on top of a bitmap object. You can modify the method to add parameters like a custom color, alignment or others.

public static Bitmap writeTextOnDrawable(Context context, Bitmap bitmap, String text, int textSize) {
	Bitmap bm = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap);
	Typeface tf = Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD;
	Paint paint = new Paint();
	paint.setStyle(Style.FILL);
	paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
	paint.setTypeface(tf);
	paint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER);
	paint.setAntiAlias(true);
	paint.setTextSize(16);
	Rect textRect = new Rect();
	paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), textRect);
	Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bm);
	int xPos = (canvas.getWidth() / 2) - 2;     //-2 is for regulating the x position offset
        int yPos = (int) ((canvas.getHeight() / 2) - ((paint.descent() + paint.ascent()) / 2)) ;  
	canvas.drawText(text, xPos, yPos, paint);
	return new BitmapDrawable(context.getResources(), bm).getBitmap();
}

public static Bitmap writeTextOnDrawable(Context context, Bitmap bitmap, String text, int textSize) {

Bitmap bm = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap);

Typeface tf = Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD;

Paint paint = new Paint();

paint.setStyle(Style.FILL);

paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);

paint.setTypeface(tf);

paint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER);

paint.setAntiAlias(true);

paint.setTextSize(16);

Rect textRect = new Rect();

paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), textRect);

Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bm);

int xPos = (canvas.getWidth() / 2) - 2; //-2 is for regulating the x position offset

int yPos = (int) ((canvas.getHeight() / 2) - ((paint.descent() + paint.ascent()) / 2)) ;

canvas.drawText(text, xPos, yPos, paint);

return new BitmapDrawable(context.getResources(), bm).getBitmap();

}

Samsung Tizen SDK Install Manager Does Not Run In Windows

October 19, 2014 by blogmeister·0 Comments

I have read users having problems running the install manager executable of the Samsung Tizen SDK both in Windows 7 and 8. In my case, when I run the install manager under Windows 7 32-bit, it closes the popup window after extracting the file so I had no way to figure out what files were decompressed and where they were placed.

I had to take a screenshot just to find out where. The extracted files can be found at

c:\users\USERNAME\appdata\local\temp\tizensdk########

Now that you found the path, what to do next? Since the files located there are a jar file and a conf text file.

To run the install manager manually, run it using Java from the command line.

java -jar InstallManager.jar

That’s it! You should see a window show up like this.

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October 14, 2014 by blogmeister·0 Comments

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Month: October 2014

How To Display Text In A Bitmap In Android

Samsung Tizen SDK Install Manager Does Not Run In Windows

Trojan Killer For Windows