9. Creating Custom Screens
IF the plain old LCDUI screens are not sufficiently jazzy or flexible for your application, you can create your own screen using a canvas. It’s more work, but it’s more fun. You can control almost all of the drawing on the display and you get fine-grained event information as well.
The Canvas class is a lot like the other screens, a descendent of the Displayable class. This means that it can have commands, a title, and a ticker.
You can’t just create a canvas directly, as you can with other screens. Canvas is an abstract class, with a single abstract method, paint(). You must write a subclass of Canvas and define a paint() method that draws whatever you want. Then you can create an instance of your canvas and show it ...
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