Example to draw text on Bitmap.
VIDEO package com.example.androidimageview; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.graphics.Color; import android.graphics.Paint; import android.graphics.Rect; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.EditText; import android.widget.ImageView; import android.widget.SeekBar; public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity { SeekBar textSizeBar; ImageView image1, image2; Button btnDrawText; EditText textIn; Bitmap bitmapOriginal; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); textSizeBar = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.textsize); btnDrawText = (Button) findViewById(R.id.drawtext); textIn = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.textin); image1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image1); image2 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image2); bitmapOriginal = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ic_launcher); image1.setImageBitmap(bitmapOriginal); btnDrawText.setOnClickListener(btnDrawTextOnClickListener); ReloadImage(); } OnClickListener btnDrawTextOnClickListener = new OnClickListener(){ @Override public void onClick(View v) { ReloadImage(); }}; private void ReloadImage() { int textSize = textSizeBar.getProgress(); String textToDraw = textIn.getText().toString(); Bitmap newBitmap = bitmapOriginal.copy(bitmapOriginal.getConfig(), true); Canvas newCanvas = new Canvas(newBitmap); Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG); paint.setColor(Color.RED); paint.setTextSize(textSize); Rect bounds = new Rect(); paint.getTextBounds(textToDraw, 0, textToDraw.length(), bounds); int x = 0; int y = newBitmap.getHeight(); newCanvas.drawText(textToDraw, x, y, paint); image1.setImageBitmap(newBitmap); image2.setImageBitmap(newBitmap); } } <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context="com.example.androidimageview.MainActivity" > <TextView android:id="@+id/title" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:autoLink="web" android:text="http://android-er.blogspot.com/" android:textStyle="bold" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/textin" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> <SeekBar android:id="@+id/textsize" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:max="50" android:progress="10" /> <Button android:id="@+id/drawtext" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Draw text on bitmap" /> <LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="horizontal" > <ImageView android:id="@+id/image1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> <ImageView android:id="@+id/image2" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="#D0D0D0" /> </LinearLayout> </LinearLayout>