What's differences between Surfaceview and TextureView?

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Won Chul Jo picture Won Chul Jo · Jun 4, 2013 · Viewed 29.8k times · Source

I've been studying Android especially View system. I have a question differences between them but there is no documents or references in my mother language. So I want to know from you guys.

Answer

Chintan Rathod picture Chintan Rathod · Jun 4, 2013

TextureView

A TextureView can be used to display a content stream. Such a content stream can for instance be a video or an OpenGL scene.

Example :
https://github.com/dalinaum/TextureViewDemo

Document:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/TextureView.html

SurfaceView

Provides a dedicated drawing surface embedded inside of a view hierarchy.

Examples :
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/Using-Surface-View-for-Android-1659.php
http://blog.wisecells.com/2012/06/04/surface-view-android/

Document:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/SurfaceView.html

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