我还发现文章“Android 101: Typography”有助于理解排版的一些复杂性.

以下示例在三个TextView中查找文本的边界,并在文本周围绘制一个矩形.矩形包含TextView中文本的(x,y)坐标.

activity_main.xml中
一个简单的演示布局.

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    android:id="@+id/layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
        android:background="@android:color/holo_blue_light"
        android:padding="24dp"
        android:text="Hello World"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textSize="50sp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
        android:background="@android:color/holo_blue_light"
        android:padding="24dp"
        android:text="Hello Worldly"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textSize="50sp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/textView1" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
        android:background="@android:color/holo_blue_light"
        android:padding="24dp"
        android:text="aaaaaaaaaa"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textSize="50sp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/textView2" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        drawTextBounds((TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1));
        drawTextBounds((TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2));
        drawTextBounds((TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3));
    }

    private void drawTextBounds(TextView textView) {
        // Force measure of text pre-layout.
        textView.measure(0,0);
        String s = (String) textView.getText();

        // bounds will store the rectangle that will circumscribe the text.
        Rect bounds = new Rect();
        Paint textPaint = textView.getPaint();

        // Get the bounds for the text. Top and bottom are measured from the baseline. Left
        // and right are measured from 0.
        textPaint.getTextBounds(s,s.length(),bounds);
        int baseline = textView.getBaseline();
        bounds.top = baseline + bounds.top;
        bounds.bottom = baseline + bounds.bottom;
        int startPadding = textView.getPaddingStart();
        bounds.left += startPadding;

        // textPaint.getTextBounds() has already computed a value for the width of the text,// however,Paint#measureText() gives a more accurate value.
        bounds.right = (int) textPaint.measureText(s,s.length()) + startPadding;

        // At this point,(x,y) of the text within the TextView is (bounds.left,bounds.top)
        // Draw the bounding rectangle.
        Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(textView.getMeasuredWidth(),textView.getMeasuredHeight(),Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
        Paint rectPaint = new Paint();
        rectPaint.setColor(Color.RED);
        rectPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
        rectPaint.setStrokeWidth(1);
        canvas.drawRect(bounds,rectPaint);
        textView.setForeground(new BitmapDrawable(getResources(),bitmap));
    }
}