Added in API level 1

Summary: Ctors | Methods | Protected Methods | Inherited Methods

Picture

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Kotlin |Java

public class Picture
extends Object

java.lang.Object
↳	android.graphics.Picture

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A Picture records drawing calls (via the canvas returned by beginRecording) and can then play them back into Canvas (via Picture.draw(Canvas) or Canvas.drawPicture(Picture)).For most content (e.g. text, lines, rectangles), drawing a sequence from a picture can be faster than the equivalent API calls, since the picture performs its playback without incurring any method-call overhead.

Note: Prior to API level 23 a picture cannot be replayed on a hardware accelerated canvas.

Summary

Public constructors
Picture() Creates an empty picture that is ready to record.
Picture(Picture src) Create a picture by making a copy of what has already been recorded in src.

Public methods
Canvas	beginRecording(int width, int height) To record a picture, call beginRecording() and then draw into the Canvas that is returned.
void	draw(Canvas canvas) Draw this picture on the canvas.
void	endRecording() Call endRecording when the picture is built.
int	getHeight() Get the height of the picture as passed to beginRecording.
int	getWidth() Get the width of the picture as passed to beginRecording.
boolean	requiresHardwareAcceleration() Indicates whether or not this Picture contains recorded commands that only work when drawn to a hardware-accelerated canvas.

Protected methods
void	finalize() Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object.

Inherited methods

From class java.lang.Object Object clone() Creates and returns a copy of this object. boolean equals(Object obj) Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. void finalize() Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object. final Class<?> getClass() Returns the runtime class of this Object. int hashCode() Returns a hash code value for the object. final void notify() Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor. final void notifyAll() Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor. String toString() Returns a string representation of the object. final void wait(long timeoutMillis, int nanos) Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed. final void wait(long timeoutMillis) Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed. final void wait() Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted.

Public constructors

Picture

Added in API level 1

public Picture ()

Creates an empty picture that is ready to record.

Picture

Added in API level 1

public Picture (Picture src)

Create a picture by making a copy of what has already been recorded in src. The contents of src are unchanged, and if src changes later, those changes will not be reflected in this picture.

Parameters
src	Picture

Public methods

beginRecording

Added in API level 1

public Canvas beginRecording (int width, 
                int height)

To record a picture, call beginRecording() and then draw into the Canvas that is returned. Nothing we appear on screen, but all of the draw commands (e.g. Canvas.drawRect(Rect, Paint)) will be recorded. To stop recording, call endRecording(). After endRecording() the Canvas that was returned must no longer be used, and nothing should be drawn into it.

Parameters
width	int
height	int

Returns
Canvas	This value cannot be null.

draw

Added in API level 1

public void draw (Canvas canvas)

Draw this picture on the canvas.

Prior to Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP, this call could have the side effect of changing the matrix and clip of the canvas if this picture had imbalanced saves/restores.

Note: This forces the picture to internally call Picture.endRecording() in order to prepare for playback.

Parameters
canvas	Canvas: The picture is drawn to this canvas This value cannot be null.

endRecording

Added in API level 1

public void endRecording ()

Call endRecording when the picture is built. After this call, the picture may be drawn, but the canvas that was returned by beginRecording must not be used anymore. This is automatically called if Picture.draw or Canvas.drawPicture(Picture) is called.

getHeight

Added in API level 1

public int getHeight ()

Get the height of the picture as passed to beginRecording. This does not reflect (per se) the content of the picture.

Returns
int

getWidth

Added in API level 1

public int getWidth ()

Get the width of the picture as passed to beginRecording. This does not reflect (per se) the content of the picture.

Returns
int

requiresHardwareAcceleration

Added in API level 28

public boolean requiresHardwareAcceleration ()

Indicates whether or not this Picture contains recorded commands that only work when drawn to a hardware-accelerated canvas. If this returns true then this Picture can only be drawn to another Picture or to a Canvas where canvas.isHardwareAccelerated() is true. Note this value is only updated after recording has finished by a call to endRecording(). Prior to that it will be the default value of false.

Returns
boolean	true if the Picture can only be drawn to a hardware-accelerated canvas, false otherwise.

Protected methods

finalize

Added in API level 1

protected void finalize ()

Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object. A subclass overrides the finalize method to dispose of system resources or to perform other cleanup.

The general contract of finalize is that it is invoked if and when the Java virtual machine has determined that there is no longer any means by which this object can be accessed by any thread that has not yet died, except as a result of an action taken by the finalization of some other object or class which is ready to be finalized. The finalize method may take any action, including making this object available again to other threads; the usual purpose of finalize, however, is to perform cleanup actions before the object is irrevocably discarded. For example, the finalize method for an object that represents an input/output connection might perform explicit I/O transactions to break the connection before the object is permanently discarded.

The finalize method of class Object performs no special action; it simply returns normally. Subclasses of Object may override this definition.

The Java programming language does not guarantee which thread will invoke the finalize method for any given object. It is guaranteed, however, that the thread that invokes finalize will not be holding any user-visible synchronization locks when finalize is invoked. If an uncaught exception is thrown by the finalize method, the exception is ignored and finalization of that object terminates.

After the finalize method has been invoked for an object, no further action is taken until the Java virtual machine has again determined that there is no longer any means by which this object can be accessed by any thread that has not yet died, including possible actions by other objects or classes which are ready to be finalized, at which point the object may be discarded.

The finalize method is never invoked more than once by a Java virtual machine for any given object.

Any exception thrown by the finalize method causes the finalization of this object to be halted, but is otherwise ignored.

Throws
Throwable