How do I draw an arrowhead (in Android)?

Question

I\'m fairly new to Android and have been toying around with Canvas. I\'m attempting to draw an arrow but I\'m only having luck with drawing the shaft, none of the arrowhead

Answer 1

How about using "Path myPath = new Path();" where you would give the x and y positions to create a triangle using lines and filling it. You can read about it, here is an example I took from somewhere.

// create and draw triangles
// use a Path object to store the 3 line segments
// use .offset to draw in many locations
// note: this triangle is not centered at 0,0
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
paint.setStrokeWidth(2);
paint.setColor(Color.RED);
Path path = new Path();
path.moveTo(0, -10);
path.lineTo(5, 0);
path.lineTo(-5, 0);
path.close();
path.offset(10, 40);
canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
path.offset(50, 100);
canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
// offset is cumlative
// next draw displaces 50,100 from previous
path.offset(50, 100);
canvas.drawPath(path, paint);

Answer 2

Use a Path as below and adjust the co-ordinates accordingly:

// Construct a wedge-shaped path
Path mPath = new Path();
mPath.moveTo(0, -50);
mPath.lineTo(-20, 60);
mPath.lineTo(0, 50);
mPath.lineTo(20, 60);
mPath.close();