Render crisp text using Canvas.drawText in Android

I'm doing an AppWidget and in its settings I'm letting the user enable/disable text shadow. Since I can't invoke the shadow method through the RemoteViews class, I'm doing a "draw" method that dynamica开发者_高级运维lly paints the widget and its container.

When drawing the text though, it gets kinda blurred and not that crisp like when using a TextView. The only code I've used for the text painting is:

Paint p = new Paint();
p.setAntiAlias(true);
p.setColor(Color.WHITE);

Are there any other magic I need to do for it to become more crisp?

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Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.LINEAR_TEXT_FLAG | Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);

did the trick for me

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These are my text paint settings:

    textPaint = new Paint();
    textPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
    textPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
    textPaint.setARGB(255, 255, 255, 255);
    textPaint.setFakeBoldText(true);
    textPaint.setTextSize(textSize);

Seems to be working well for me.

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The text setAntiAlias(true) (In Hardware mode) only works from API 18 and above so use this code to set your layer type.

int currentapiVersion = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if (currentapiVersion >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB && currentapiVersion < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR2) {
        this.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
    }