Canvas in SurfaceView - hardware acceleration

android canvas surfaceview hardware-acceleration
user1019096 picture user1019096 · Mar 6, 2012 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

I'm developing on ICS and trying to understand why a Canvas.isHardwareAccelerated() will always return FALSE when using a Canvas inside a SurfaceView.

I've tried a very basic example like this: http://android-coding.blogspot.com/2011/05/drawing-on-surfaceview.html Or this one: http://jmsliu.com/199/android-canvas-example.html

I even modified them to not have any canvas calls inside the draw loop thinking that I might have got in some unsupported HW accel operations for certain drawing calls. I checked this list under "Unsupported Drawing Operations" developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html but I'm not doing any of that.

I am using the Force GPU rendering flag inside the Developer Options together with inside the manifests, also I'm specifying minSDK/targetSDK >= 14.

The View.isHardwareAccelerated will return TRUE, while the Canvas.isHardwareAccelerated will return always FALSE.

I've seen that Canvas.java has hard-codeded return false for isHardwareAccelerated(), while HardwareCanvas.java has return true. I guess for some reasons I'm not getting the HW path, why?

Can a Canvas inside a SurfaceView be HW accelerated?

Thanks

Answer

Romain Guy picture Romain Guy · Mar 30, 2012

A Canvas returned by SurfaceView.lockCanvas() cannot be hardware accelerated at the moment.

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