Advice depends upon what you are trying to do. If you are concerned that your controls take a long time to draw, and you want to draw to a bitmap so you can blit the bitmap rather than re-drawing via a canvas, then you don’t want to be double-guessing the platform – controls automatically cache … Read more
Start By going through the Fingerpaint demo in the sdk sample. Another Sample: public class MainActivity extends Activity { DrawingView dv ; private Paint mPaint; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); dv = new DrawingView(this); setContentView(dv); mPaint = new Paint(); mPaint.setAntiAlias(true); mPaint.setDither(true); mPaint.setColor(Color.GREEN); mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); mPaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND); mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND); mPaint.setStrokeWidth(12); } public class DrawingView extends View { … Read more