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rupps
rupps

Reputation: 9887

Surface view benefits for simple bitmap draw

I need to draw a fullscreen Background and scroll it in a lot of situations. Actually I have implemented it as a normal View.

would I get any benefit just changing to SurfaceView? I don't think I even will need a separate thread, as the onDraw just contains a draw(huge)Bitmap().

Upvotes: 0

Views: 205

Answers (1)

Dalmas
Dalmas

Reputation: 26547

A SurfaceView is more designed for multithreading and drawing lots of objects. It can even be slower than a custom view if it's just to draw a bitmap, as a SurfaceView has an internal view hierarchy and more overhead than a View (initialization, ...).

Upvotes: 1

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