Is Canvas hardware accelerated on Android being drawn?

Question

Are calls to Canvas.drawPath () / drawArc () / etc hardware accelerated, transferred to the device’s embedded implementation, or implemented in Java?

Or is OpenGL the only way to achieve hardware accelerated drawing?

I am trying to determine if the Canvas API can be used for real-time animation.

Answer 1

Canvas is currently not hardware accelerated.

there are hints in the source code that indicate plans for implementing canvas wrapping around such an HW accelerator, but so far this does not work.