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PESDK/Android/Features

Text Design

The TextDesign tool of the PhotoEditor SDK for Android offers a automated text layouting engine.

Text Design tool

A picture says more than a thousand words, however sometimes it still takes a few more. The robust text-design feature of the PhotoEditor SDK provides a simple and automated creative text layouting engine to any picture.

The backend settings are implemented in the TextDesignLayerSettings class and displayed using the TextDesignToolPanel. If you want to customize the appearance of this tool, take a look at the customization section.

TextDesign configuration#

UiConfigTextDesign uiConfigTextDesign = settingsList.getSettingsModel(UiConfigTextDesign.class);
uiConfigTextDesign.setTextDesignList(
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignBlocks.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_blocks, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_blocks)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignRotated.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_rotated, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_rotated)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignBlocksLight.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_blocksLight, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_blocks_light)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignEqualWidth.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_equalWidth, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_equal_width)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignMasked.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_masked, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_masked)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignCelebrate.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_celebrate, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_celebrate)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignSunshine.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_sunshine, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_sunshine)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignMaskedBadge.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_maskedBadge, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_masked_badge)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignBlocksCondensed.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_blocksCondensed, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_blocks_condensed)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignCelebrateSimple.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_celebrateSimple, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_celebrate_simple)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignEqualWidthFat.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_equalWidthFat, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_equal_width_fat)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignWatercolor.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_watercolor, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_watercolor)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignParticles.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_particles, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_particles)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignMaskedSpeechBubble.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_maskedSpeechBubble, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_masked_speech_bubble)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignMaskedSpeechBubbleComic.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_maskedSpeechBubbleComic, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_masked_speech_bubble_comic)),
  new TextDesignItem(TextDesignMultiline.ID, R.string.pesdk_textDesign_asset_multiline, ImageSource.create(R.drawable.imgly_icon_text_design_multiline))
);

Initial Text Design#

To determine a specific Text Design Item as the initial Text Design on opening the feature add the following code example:

// Create TextDesignLayerSettings with some of the available Layouts ("TextDesign*()")
TextDesignLayerSettings textDesignLayer = new TextDesignLayerSettings(new TextDesignBlocks());
// Set a Text
textDesignLayer.setText("Tap here to edit your text");
// Set a fixed seed, to have always the same TextDesign Layout, otherwise, the seed is taken randomly, so the layout will switch randomly.
textDesignLayer.setSeed(12345L);
// Add the Layer to your settingsList
settingsList.getSettingsModel(LayerListSettings.class).addLayer(textDesignLayer);