Android Programming: How to draw multiline text in a rectangle?

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I've seen many posts dealing with similar problems but none of them worked for me. In `Canvas`, I have a rectangle of size, let's say, 200px by 200px, and I want to write text in this rectangle. The text doesn't need to fill the entire rectangle, but the important thing is that there should automatically be a line break when it reaches the end of the rectangle. How can I do this in Android?

Accepted Answer

You can use StaticLayout.

```
RectF rect = new RectF(....)

StaticLayout sl = new StaticLayout("This is my text that must fit to a rectangle", textPaint, (int)rect.width(), Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER, 1, 1, false);

canvas.save();
canvas.translate(rect.left, rect.top);
sl.draw(canvas);
canvas.restore();
```

Android Programming: How to draw multiline text in a rectangle?

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