Learning Android Development

Learn All Android Canvas Draw Functions

23 functions for drawing with Android Canvas

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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:

1. Geometrical Drawing
2. Text Drawing
3. Color Drawing
4. Image Drawing

In case you don’t have experience making custom views, you can refer to the tutorials below:

Building Custom Component with Kotlin