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Advanced Android™ Application Development, Fourth Edition
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Advanced Android™ Application Development, Fourth Edition

by Joseph Annuzzi Jr., Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 56m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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22. Developing Android 2D Graphics Applications

In Introduction to Android Application Development: Android Essentials, we talked about layouts and the various View classes available in Android to make screen design simple and efficient. Now we must think at a slightly lower level and talk about drawing objects on the screen. This chapter covers the two-dimensional drawing features built into the Android platform, including creating custom View classes and working with Canvas and Paint to draw shapes and text. You will also learn about working with bitmaps and how to use the hardware acceleration features of the Android platform.

Drawing on the Screen

With Android, we can display images such as PNG and JPG graphics as well as text and primitive ...

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