ya I have a custom view that basically just animates some imgs bouncing around the screen. I would really like to figure out how to print some text onto the view. I can't figure out how to do this. can i layer views somehow? like make a regular txtview and layer the drawview over it and somehow still see the txtview?

thanks in advance.

Implement your own View and in the onDraw() you paint the image and then you paint the text you want.

thanks mr snowflake, this makes sense but I haven't been able to figure it out quite yet.. here is the code i'm trying to use

for (int i = 0; i < ballCount; i++) {
theCanvas.drawBitmap(ballList.get(i).getBitmap(), ballList.get(i)
.getX(), ballList.get(i).getY(), null);
theCanvas.drawText("please work", 0, 0, null);
}

this is a method i have that is called right after invalidate in the onDraw method. the program force closes on opening. if I try and specify the paint color and all that stuff instead of putting null it seems to crash too, or maybe I'm doing it wrong. If I delete theCanvas.drawText line then it works and the balls will bounce around, but trying to do a drawText just makes it crash...

woo, nevermind got it working! just was crashing because of the way that I declared paint object.. I found a great tutorial for this kinda stuff here:

http://bestsiteinthemultiverse.com/2008 ... s-example/