Override onDraw() or draw()?

android draw surfaceview ondraw
Zippy picture Zippy · Feb 14, 2013 · Viewed 20.4k times · Source

My project is based on surfaceView and up until now I've had all of my rendering in onDraw which I am overriding. All seemed to be OK.

However, I've just updated my SDK and now it gives me an error telling me:

Suspicious method call; should probably call "draw" rather than "onDraw"

Could someone please explain the difference between these two?

I've read some similar questions around the net but I've not found an explanation that I understand.

Thanks

Answer

KarenAnne picture KarenAnne · May 28, 2013

I tried cleaning my project and it did solve the problem. Try it.

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