Mirrored image of TextView

Question

I am trying to generate a mirrored image for a TextView.

One of the simple solutions seems to be setting textDirection as "Right to Left" i.e.

         textView.setTextDirection(View.TEXT_DIRECTION_RTL);

However, this only seems to work for api level 17 and above.

Not being familiar to TextViewCompat .. i am unable to decode how to use this functionality for api level 10.

Question is: - How do I use textView.setTextDirection() method for api level 10 ??

Any pointers are really appreciated !!

TEXT_DIRECTION_RTL won't mirror your characters. It will just "mirror the gravity" of the view. It is meant to be used with Right to Left writing systems, like that one used in arabic. Maybe you should reformulate your question to be more goal oriented... — mdelolmo, Jun 29 '15 at 19:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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May not be optimal solution, but it should work.

Take a snapshot of the view (TextView in this case) and then flip the image horizontally when displaying it.

Example on flipping:

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

Community

answered Jun 29 '15 at 18:51

km86

Thanks .. but I am looking for a simpler solution. Quiet simply the backward example for TextViewCompat – Deep Jun 29 '15 at 19:04

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