85.7 Drawing the Content on the Page Canvas

We have now reached the point where some code needs to be written to draw the content on the pages so that they are ready for printing. The content that gets drawn is completely application specific and limited only by what can be achieved using the Android Canvas class. For the purposes of this example, however, some simple text and graphics will be drawn on the canvas.

The onWrite() method has been designed to call a method named drawPage() which takes as arguments the PdfDocument.Page object representing the current page and an integer representing the page number. Within the MainActivity.kt file this method should now be implemented as follows:

package com.ebookfrenzy.customprint

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import android.graphics.Color

import android.graphics.Paint

 

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

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   inner class MyPrintDocumentAdapter(private var context: Context) :

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