Magic Text View - Bringing the magic of Word Art to Android

Featuring:

• Crisp Outer Shadows as many as you like!
• Inner Shdows again, hundreds if you so desire
• Outlines just one for now, add more and send a pull request for extra credit
• Text Backgrounds "Fire" made of fire!

If anybody figures out how to do text paths, please let me know!

Installation

Eclipse

If you like you can import the project into eclipse, and use it as a library project This is a decent tutorial on using library projects

Realistically, just copy MagicTextView.java & attrs.xml into your project and use them as your own.

Android Studio

For using it with Android Studio:

• Add the folder into your project
• Edit build.gradle and change apply plugin: 'android' into apply plugin: 'android-library'
• Remove activity tag in AndroidManifest.xml
• Add ':MagicTextView' in the includes of the settings.xml of your project
• Add compile project(':MagicTextView') in the dependencies section of the module in which you want to use the library
• Use it in this module

You're done !

If you use it as a library into Android Studio, replace in your XML layout:

xmlns:qwerjk="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.qwerjk.better_text"

By:

xmlns:qwerjk="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Usage

From Xml:

<com.qwerjk.better_text.MagicTextView
    xmlns:qwerjk="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.qwerjk.better_text"
    android:textSize="78dp"
    android:textColor="#ff333333"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableLeft="@android:drawable/btn_star"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:padding="10dp"
    qwerjk:mtv_foreground="@drawable/fake_luxury_tiled"
    qwerjk:innerShadowDy="2"
    qwerjk:innerShadowColor="#FF000000"
    qwerjk:innerShadowRadius="1"
    qwerjk:outerShadowDy="3"
    qwerjk:outerShadowColor="#FF0088ff"
    qwerjk:outerShadowRadius="10"
    qwerjk:strokeColor="#FFff0000"
    qwerjk:strokeJoinStyle="miter"
    qwerjk:strokeWidth="5"
    android:text="Magic" />

From Java:

view = new MagicTextView(context);
view.addInnerShadow(0, -1, 0, 0xFFffffff);
view.addOuterShadow(0, -1, 0, 0xff000000);
view.setStroke(4, 0xFFff0000);
view.setForegroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.fake_luxury_tiled);