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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

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.

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: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);

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