Override onDraw() or draw()?

Question

My project is based on surfaceView and up until now I\'ve had all of my rendering in onDraw which I am overriding. All seemed to be OK.

However, I\'ve just updated my S

Answer 1

I have the problem since ever.

I handle it like this:

1) Declare a method like the following.

@SuppressLint("WrongCall")
public void drawTheView() {
    theCanvas = null;

    try{
        theCanvas = getHolder().lockCanvas();
        if(theCanvas != null) {
            onDraw(theCanvas);
        }
    } finally {
        getHolder().unlockCanvasAndPost(theCanvas);
    }
}

2) Now you can modify the onDraw() Method:

@Override
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    //Do some drawing


}

You can call the drawTheView() method from everywhere you want and call the onDraw() method this way without getting the error...

I think this is a practical way.