Learn how to draw something custom in Compose. With custom drawing, you can improve the look and feel of your app when the built-in components don't cover exactly what your app needs.
Key points
DrawScopeis a declarative, stateless drawing API to draw shapes, paths, and more without needing to maintain the state of the component manually.- Several drawing modifiers give you access to
DrawScope, letting you draw with other composables:drawBehind: draws behind the composables content.drawWithContent: useful for rearranging content. You can choose when to call the content of the composable, either before or after.drawWithCache: caches the objects until the size changes or the state variables read inside change.
- The coordinate system in Compose is the same as the view system.
- All draw and layout calls are performed in pixel values, not
dp. To draw consistently across screens, usedpand convert to pixels before drawing. - Draw calls are always relative to the parent composable.
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