[android-developers] How can we only rendering certain regions in SurfaceView

I try to apply the similar technique found in Swing over Android's SurfaceView http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/painting/step3.html An important point worth noting is that although we have invoked repaint twice in a row in the same event handler, Swing is smart enough to take

Re: [android-developers] How can we only rendering certain regions in SurfaceView

To be honest, if you want something like the Swing behavior then don't use SurfaceView. The regular view hierarchy behaves more like Swing -- you call invalidate() on the rectangle that has changed, and the rectangles will be combined into a single draw operation down the view hierarchy. The