How can I draw text on a text view bottom up?

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I need to draw text on a TextView in a bottom up fashion, i.e., draw the last line of the text first at the bottom, then the second last line of the text and so on. How can I do that?

I am trying to follow the solution given in this post - Paginating text in Android.

TextView draws the text top down. What I want to achieve is given a text, I would like the last line of the view filled first, then the second last line and so on, Hence filling the first line in the last iteration. I tried creating a Custom TextView and overriding its onDraw method, but nothing seems to work.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask – Vucko Jun 13 '16 at 18:13 — Vucko, Jun 13 '16 at 18:13
post your code here and give any example – Quick learner Jun 13 '16 at 18:20 — Quick learner, Jun 13 '16 at 18:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '16 at 19:10

Create a custom textview. In the setText method, do some string manipulation. Basically rearranging the text in the string so that the first line I the new text string is the last line of the old text string. Pass the new text string to the super.setText

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '16 at 19:25

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If it is not scrollable textview you can set android:gravity="bottom|left" or "bottom|right" if you want right alignment. With this method width and hight can't be wrap_content.

answered Jun 13 '16 at 19:25

Ivan Marincic

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How can I draw text on a text view bottom up?

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