Rectangle not updating nor showing color

Question

I am having issues with by rectangle not stopping (hard coded values due to bugs with grabbing screen height) in addition, when I draw with red paint, I always get a black recta

Answer 1

The Paint(int) constructor doesn't take a color value; those are actually flags.

Just use setColor(int) instead.

If you want it to animate, add a call to invalidate() to your onDraw() routine (doesn't really matter where). That way, it keeps getting redrawn, in an endless cycle. Also, call update() inside onDraw() as well. Kind of a "poor-man's" animation, but it should get you going.