inner shadow on Android TextView

Question

is it possible to put an inner shadow on the text of a TextView in Android like this one :

Thanks !

Euthenics

Answer 1

That's a duplicate to a question I asked a few months ago: Is there a way to add inner shadow to a TextView on Android?

No proper way to do that at the moment. But if you try playing with the alpha of the text color and the drop shadow you can end up having something close to an inner shadow.

Timbre

Ok thanks, I already see your post but I thought you asked for the nine-patch. – Euthenics

Can you elaborate on "playing with the alpha of the text color and the drop shadow"? The question you link to doesn't contain the answer to this question. – Gotama

Answer 2

MagicTextView will do inner shadows.

    <com.qwerjk.better_text.MagicTextView
        xmlns:qwerjk="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.qwerjk.better_text"
        android:textSize="42dp"
        android:textColor="#FFffff00"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:padding="10dp"
        qwerjk:innerShadowDy="3"
        qwerjk:innerShadowColor="#FF000000"
        qwerjk:innerShadowRadius="5"
        android:text="InnerShadow" />

Note: I made this, and am posting more for the sake of future travelers than the OP. It's borderline spam, but being on-topic, perhaps acceptable?

Charissa

I would not recommend MagicTextView as it is designed right now. The solution will cause an infinite invalidation loop and have huge impact on performance. As the layout will never settle you cannot rely on things like waitForIdleSync in Instrumentation either. – Fransen

I actually fixed that problem a while back. The invlaidate/postInvalidate methods are disabled while the draw is in progress. That was a pretty big performance killer though. – Charissa

Answer 3

For Shadowing effect :

 <TextView
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingLeft="5sp"
    android:paddingTop="15sp"
    android:paddingBottom="15sp"
    android:typeface="normal"
    android:text="I'm normal (bold) font but I have a shadow"
    android:textSize="16sp"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:shadowColor ="#0f0f0f"
    android:shadowRadius="1.6"
    android:shadowDx="1.5"
    android:shadowDy="1.3"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:background="#ffffff"
    />

Or ,You can use your own Fonts , Place them in the res/assets folder :

TextView txt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.custom_font);   
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "my_font.ttf");  
txt.setTypeface(font);

Or check the following links for detail:

http://www.barebonescoder.com/2010/05/android-development-using-custom-fonts/

and

http://www.giantflyingsaucer.com/blog/?p=1421

Irresolute

Yeah but i'm not sure to understand, how a new font can affect the text to have an inner shadow ? – Euthenics

this properties is not inner shodow – Inquest