Newline character in a text using canvas.drawText

Question

I'm doing an Android Game, and I'm using a function like this to show texts on the device screen:

public void drawString(String text, int x, int y, Paint paint) {
    canvas.drawText(text, x, y, paint);

}

And I try to show the following message:

g.drawString("Player: " + playerString+ " :\n" + messageString,SCREENWIDTH / 2, SCREENHEIGHT / 2, paint);

However instead of a newline (\n) I get a strange character (a square).

Anyone can help me?

Thanks

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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Instead of drawString call drawText and for break lines call drawText twice with Y offset.

look here for example Draw multi-line text to Canvas

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Apr 14 '13 at 10:44

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 12 '22 at 11:46

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public void drawString(Canvas canvas, String text, int x, int y, TextPaint paint) {
   if (text.contains("\n")) {
      String[] texts = text.split("\n");
      for (String txt : texts) {
         canvas.drawText(txt, x, y, paint);
         y += paint.getTextSize();
      }
   } else {
      canvas.drawText(text, x, y, paint);
   }
}

edited Jul 12 '22 at 11:46

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answered Apr 18 '20 at 03:33

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Newline character in a text using canvas.drawText

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