11.1. The Canvas API
To directly use the display and the low-level user interface API, the developer uses the Graphics and Canvas classes. The Canvas class provides the display surface, its dimensions, and callbacks used to handle key and pointer events and to paint the display when requested. The methods of this class must be overridden by the developer to respond to events and to paint the screen when requested.
The Graphics class provides methods to paint lines, rectangles, arcs, text, and images to a Canvas or an Image.
The combination of the event-handling capabilities of the Canvas and the drawing capabilities of the Graphics class allows applications to have complete control over the application region of the screen. These low-level classes ...
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