Gradient appears banded in a SurfaceView, but looks very smooth in a normal View

Question

My problem is that when drawing a simple test image (a rectangle with a gradient fill) within a SurfaceView, the gradient has colour banding. When drawing exact

Answer 1

Found the solution myself in the end by adding this into the SurfaceView's constructor:

getHolder().setFormat(PixelFormat.RGBA_8888);