Is there any SIMPLE way of rendering formatted text (from a char\* buffer) to the display...?
And I mean, simple.... In C or C++ or even Java, on nearly any platform, including embedded, you can get a pointer to a framebuffer or display and render simple text or pixels with 2 or 3, 5 max lines of code.... 

I have been looking in across the web (and in iphone development books) but I have yet to see
any rendering of text to the display, without going through a whole host of "UI~something~Views" to put a couple lines of text on the screen...

Please tell me I am wrong, and there is a very simple way to render text, nothing fancy, just two or three lines of plain old ascii text, no bells and whistles, just black and white text....

Something like: 
void my\_callback()
{
 Global\_Pointer\_to\_screen(x,y,data);
}

Thank you!