Custom path line style when drawing on canvas

Question

I\'m currently working on map overlay which highlights the route along specified points and I need to implement certain line style (something like on screenshot)

Answer 1

I managed to find a better solution for my problem. So I got rid of my custom path effect and started to use usual stroke. So I basically draw my path 2 times: at first I draw black line, after that I draw thiner transparent line to clear the center of previous black line.

The only trick in this approach is that I need to draw my path in a separate bitmap (using temp canvas) and when path bitmap is ready - render it to the main canvas.

Hope this will help somebody else

@Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas, final MapView mapView, boolean shadow)
{
    //Generate new bitmap if old bitmap doesn't equal to the screen size (f.i. when screen orientation changes)
    if(pathBitmap == null || pathBitmap.isRecycled() || pathBitmap.getWidth()!=canvas.getWidth() || pathBitmap.getHeight()!=canvas.getHeight())
    {
        if(pathBitmap != null)
        {        
            pathBitmap.recycle();
        }
        pathBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight(), Config.ARGB_8888);
        tempCanvas.setBitmap(pathBitmap);
    }

    //Render routes to the temporary bitmap
    renderPathBitmap();

    //Render temporary bitmap onto main canvas
    canvas.drawBitmap(pathBitmap, 0, 0, null);
    }
}

private void renderPath(Path path, Canvas canvas)
{
    routePaint.setStrokeWidth(ROUTE_LINE_WIDTH);
    routePaint.setColor(OUTER_COLOR);
    routePaint.setXfermode(null);

    canvas.drawPath(path, routePaint); //render outer line

    routePaint.setStrokeWidth(ROUTE_LINE_WIDTH/1.7f);
    routePaint.setColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    routePaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.CLEAR));

    canvas.drawPath(path, routePaint); //render inner line
}

So result looks like: