Android BlurMaskFilter has no effect in canvas.drawOval while text is blurred
Looks like a bug to me. I reported it to the Android team; we’ll see what they say. It renders correctly if you set android:hardwareAccelerated=”false” on your Activity in AndroidManifest.xml. Here is the official word from the Android graphics team: “BlurMaskFilter is not supported with hardware acceleration.” (As of July 10, 2012)