Getting Started with Canvas API in Jetpack Compose

[kirwa-elyjah]

Getting Started with Canvas in Jetpack Compose

Wrinting sample(s):

https://www.section.io/engineering-education/creating-custom-animated-shimmer-effect-with-jetpack-compose/

Proposed article introduction

The Jetpack Compose canvas is Native android canvas API’s from the UI toolkit but more accessible and is a lot easier to use and create things. The Canvas is exposed as a composable function in the Jetpack Compose UI framework and you can place the Canvas in your layout the same way you would with any other Compose UI element. It simplifies a lot of things for us and handles different Canvas drawing states for us. We all know working with those Paint objects was so difficult and can easily cause performance issues as well. These things are already handled by Jetpack Compose Canvas API.

This tutorial well look at the Canvas API in a more deeper way, give the reader an understanding of it Capabilities and how to use it.

Key takeaways

• What A canvas is
• When is it needed
• Canvas basics
• Different ways of drawing custom shapes
• Overriding the canvas of any existing Composable
• How to animate the shapes that we'll draw
• How you can access the native Android canvas to bring your existing shapes to life

Article quality

My article we cover the Jetpack Canvas API in more depth as opposed to what is covered in other blogs

References

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/graphics

[LinusMuema]

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