get text as bitmap-Android

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Handy method to receive text as bitmap, so later on someone can draw that into another view.


public Bitmap getTextAsBitmap(Context gContext,
 String gText,int mColor,boolean boldenabled,boolean italicenabled,Typeface myFontType) {
 Resources resources = gContext.getResources();
 float scale = resources.getDisplayMetrics().density;

 // new antialised Paint
 Paint paint = new Paint();

if(boldenabled && italicenabled){
paint.setTypeface(Typeface.defaultFromStyle(Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC));
paint.setTextSkewX(-0.25f);
}else if(boldenabled){
paint.setTypeface(Typeface.defaultFromStyle(Typeface.BOLD));
paint.setTextSkewX(0.0f);
}else if(italicenabled){
paint.setTypeface(Typeface.defaultFromStyle(Typeface.ITALIC));
paint.setTextSkewX(-0.25f);
}else{
paint.setTypeface(Typeface.defaultFromStyle(Typeface.NORMAL));
paint.setTextSkewX(0.0f);
}

// text size in pixels
paint.setTextSize((int) (textSize*3 * scale));
if (myFontType != null) {
paint.setTypeface(myFontType);
}

paint.setColor(mColor);

 // draw text to the Canvas center
 Rect bounds = new Rect();
 paint.getTextBounds(gText, 0, gText.length(), bounds);
 Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bounds.width(), bounds.height(), android.graphics.Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);    
 Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
 int x = (bitmap.getWidth() - bounds.width())/2;
 int y = (bitmap.getHeight())/2;
 canvas.drawText(gText, x * scale, y * scale, paint);
 return bitmap;
}