Learning Android Development
Learn All Android Canvas Draw Functions
23 functions for drawing with Android Canvas
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9 min readAug 3, 2019
If you would like to create custom view from ground up in Android, it’s helpful to know which draw functions are available on Canvas.
In this blog, I list every draw function available in Android Canvas: 23 of them. Do go through them. You might find some you never knew existed (I myself was surprised by some).
Below, I categorize them as:
- Geometrical Drawing
- Text Drawing
- Color Drawing
- Image Drawing
In case you don’t have experience making custom views, you can refer to the tutorials below: