Rotating Text in Android

Question

I am creating an Android application. The design calls for rotated text as seen for the "Physical Exam" label in the image below. I have used "android:rotation='270'" but the layout doesn't work out right.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the "Physical Exam" label to look like the image?

Physical Exam Label

Try http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4636474/layout-problem-with-android-rotated-textview — pavel.vodenski, Jul 31 '11 at 23:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

1

If you are drawing to a canvas, you can use the translate() method to temporarily rotate the canvas, write to it, then translate it back.

More info at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canvas.html#translate(float,%20float)

Here is a good example: http://bestsiteinthemultiverse.com/2008/11/android-graphics-example/

Edit: Since you are handling this directly in the layout, here is a good solution from another Stackoverflow post: Vertical (rotated) label in Android

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

Community

1
1

answered Jul 31 '11 at 02:41

Phil

35,852
23
123
164

I have it in the View as a TextView. – Dan Jul 31 '11 at 02:48
@Dan, hopefully my edited response will help a little better. – Phil Jul 31 '11 at 04:13

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

1

You can try the following solution:

1. Using rotate in Animation: TextView Rotate Animation

2. Extend TextView Custom TextView to rotate

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

Community

1
1

answered Jul 31 '11 at 04:03

NguyenDat

4,129
3
46
46

Rotating Text in Android

2 Answers2

Linked