Hi, Create a new Bitmap and Canvas then draw your path into the new Canvas and use the associated Bitmap as your cache.
The code I wrote in the following may help - http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/6aeed20525760f3/c44b305df3897427 Regards On Oct 6, 12:26 pm, Felix <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am banging my head against the wall trying to create a Bitmap from a > Path object (android.graphics.Path). Is there any way to do this? I've > browsed through most of the classes now but can't seem to find any way > to do it. > > Actually, what I have is a Path that consists of many cubic Bezier > curves. It is really expensive to draw with canvas.drawPath(). So I > figured that I could perhaps "cache" the Bitmap of this Path by > converting the Path to a Bitmap once and then just drawing the Bitmap > every time instead of calling canvas.drawPath(). > > Is there any way to create a Bitmap from this Path? > > Or is there a smarter way to draw tha Path multiple times without > having to recalculate all of the Beziers? For example, if I created a > ShapeDrawable from PathShape from the Path, and just draw the > ShapeDrawable objects every time, would that be more efficient than > drawing the Path every time? > > Thanks very much in advance for your answers! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
