How to draw BiDi text in a custom view using StaticLayout

Question

In the Android user view, I draw several custom text texts that can be bidirectional. For example, in Hebrew or Arabic mixed with English text or numbers. To draw text, I mainly use the Canvas, TextPaint, and StaticLayout views. The actual code is quite complex and common, but the bit that draws the text looks like this:

TextPaint _paint = getPaint();
Canvas _canvas = ...; // the canvas passed in the View.onDraw(Canvas canvas) method
PointF l = locationCenter(); // the location at which the center of text should be painted
int alignment = getAlignment(); // for this element, can vary for each element.
PointF textSize = getTextBounds(); // the bounding box of the text
String text = userInputText(); // actually some user input BiDi text
                switch (alignment) {
                    case 0:
                        _paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
                        l.x += textSize.x / 2.0f;
                        break;
                    case 1:
                        _paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.LEFT);
                        l.x -= 1;
                        break;
                    default:
                        _paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.RIGHT);
                        l.x += (textSize.x + 1);
                        break;
                }

                StaticLayout layout = new StaticLayout(text, _paint, (int) Math.ceil(textSize.x + 0.5f), Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_CENTER, 1.0f, 0.0f, false);
                _canvas.translate(l.x, l.y);
                layout.draw(_canvas);
                _canvas.translate(-l.x, -l.y);

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BidiFormatter, :

                BidiFormatter.Builder builder = new BidiFormatter.Builder();
                builder.stereoReset(true);
                android.support.v4.text.BidiFormatter formatter = builder.build(); 
                String text = formatter.unicodeWrap(userInputText());
                // proceed as above

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public static boolean containsRtlChar(String text) {
    for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
        int c = text.codePointAt(i);
        int direction = Character.getDirectionality(c);
        if ((direction == Character.DIRECTIONALITY_RIGHT_TO_LEFT) || (direction == Character.DIRECTIONALITY_RIGHT_TO_LEFT_ARABIC) || (direction == Character.DIRECTIONALITY_RIGHT_TO_LEFT_EMBEDDING) || (direction == Character.DIRECTIONALITY_RIGHT_TO_LEFT_OVERRIDE))
            return true;
    }
    return false;
}

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                if (containsRtlChars(text)) {
                    alignment = TextStyle.textAlignLeft;
                }

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