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POHow can you display upside down text with a textview in Android?
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copied!<p>How can you display upside down text with a textview in Android?</p> <p>In my case I have a 2 player game, where they play across from each other. I want to display test to the second player oriented to them.</p> <hr> <p>This was the solution I implemented after AaronMs advice</p> <p>The class that does the overriding, bab.foo.UpsideDownText </p> <pre><code>package bab.foo; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.widget.TextView; public class UpsideDownText extends TextView { //The below two constructors appear to be required public UpsideDownText(Context context) { super(context); } public UpsideDownText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); } @Override public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { //This saves off the matrix that the canvas applies to draws, so it can be restored later. canvas.save(); //now we change the matrix //We need to rotate around the center of our text //Otherwise it rotates around the origin, and that's bad. float py = this.getHeight()/2.0f; float px = this.getWidth()/2.0f; canvas.rotate(180, px, py); //draw the text with the matrix applied. super.onDraw(canvas); //restore the old matrix. canvas.restore(); } } </code></pre> <p>And this is my XML layout:</p> <pre><code><bab.foo.UpsideDownText android:text="Score: 0" android:id="@+id/tvScore" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="#FFFFFF" > </bab.foo.UpsideDownText> </code></pre>

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