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)

Accepted Answer

You can use that method :

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

It's working for me.

How do draw italic text on Android canvas?

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