Drawing line numbers with background in Custom android Edittext -

i have created custom edittext class draws line numbers next on left of every line. works fine want set background of line numbers grey , achieve this:

in ondraw method draw numbers tried draw thick line gets drawn on line numbers no matter put it, before call draws line numbers or after. here code

protected void ondraw(canvas canvas) {     int baseline = getbaseline();      (int = 0; < getlinecount(); i++) {         //line still gets drawn on text         canvas.drawtext("" + (i + 1), rect.left, baseline, paint);         canvas.drawline(rect.left,baseline,rect.right,rect.top,fill);         canvas.drawtext("" + (i + 1), rect.left, baseline, paint);          baseline += getlineheight();      }      super.ondraw(canvas); } 

any suggestions how make line appear in background?

thanks

try draw line @ width of line number. before loop:

paint linepaint = new paint(getpaint()); // copy original paint linepaint.setargb(255, 200, 200, 200); // grey color string strcount = string.valueof(getlinecount());  float[] symbolwidths = new float[strcount.length()]; linepaint.gettextwidths(strcount, symbolwidths);  float strokewidth = 0; (float width : symbolwidths)     strokewidth += width; strokewidth = strokewidth *2/*i dnt knw y*/ + strokewidth; linepaint.setstrokewidth(strokewidth); setpadding((int)strokewidth / 2, 0, 0, 0); // text padding  canvas.drawline(rect.left, getlineheight() * getlinecount(), rect.right, rect.top, linepaint);