How do you draw text with a border on a MapView in Android?

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The easiest way to do this is with a Stroke… something like this:

@Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapView, boolean shadow) {
    Paint strokePaint = new Paint();
    strokePaint.setARGB(255, 0, 0, 0);
    strokePaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
    strokePaint.setTextSize(16);
    strokePaint.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);
    strokePaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
    strokePaint.setStrokeWidth(2);

    Paint textPaint = new Paint();
    textPaint.setARGB(255, 255, 255, 255);
    textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
    textPaint.setTextSize(16);
    textPaint.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);

    canvas.drawText("Some Text", 100, 100, strokePaint);
    canvas.drawText("Some Text", 100, 100, textPaint);

    super.draw(canvas, mapView, shadow);
}

This will draw a border of 2 pixels around the outside of the text then draw the text over the top of it, giving you the illusion of an outline.

Also, it may be worth setting the Paints up in the constructor then just reusing them.

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