How do draw italic text on Android canvas?

Question

In my app I am drawing text on Android Canvas;

Now to support underline and bold I am taking help of paint object;

 Paint paint = new Paint();   

 paint.setUnderlineText(true); 
 paint.setFakeBoldText(true);

 paint.setColor(color);
 paint.setTextSize (font_size);
 canvas_obj.drawText(text,x,y,paint);

With this code I am getting bold and underlined text;

I also like to make it italic,

I am developing app for android 2.2 onwards.

how to do it?

Edit:

I am setting Typeface object created with an external font file to support external font; For Italic I am using following code

paint.setTypeface(Typeface.create(external_font_type_face,Typeface.ITALIC));

This also not working, Tested on Samsung Galaxy Ace (android 2.2)

Clapboard

Answer 1

You can use that method :

paint.setTypeface(Typeface.create(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.ITALIC));

It's working for me.

Caryopsis

I am already using a Typeface object( created with an external font file, ) in paint ; I am developing app for android 2.2 onwards – Clapboard

@Swarnendu Typeface has been implemented in Android 1.5 – Caryopsis

@ Ty221 Unfortunately it is not working, setting typeface to paint object is replacing previously set typrface object to the paint object(which was set to support external font ); so neither I am getting the external font support nor italic text with default font.. :-( – Clapboard

I don't know other way (Google also don't know) – Caryopsis

Answer 2

Use this:

paint.setTextSkewX(-0.25f);

Prothallus

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