how to set a text over an imageView?

android android-layout android-imageview textview
Siva K picture Siva K · Apr 25, 2011 · Viewed 84.1k times · Source

I am placing an application bar on the top of the screen and it looks as the following figure:

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Now i want to set a text over the image, so that the image looks as follows:

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How to set a text over an image? Thanks in advance

Answer

Tenfour04 picture Tenfour04 · Apr 25, 2011

If you simply want text centered over an image, all you need is a TextView, no image view. Set android:background="@drawable/yourImage" on the TextView.

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