Develop and deploy graphics-rich Android applications using Android Canvas Overview Understand user interactions and respond to those actions Discover how to work with graphics in Android from scratch Using a step by step approach, create a graphics-rich, fully functional application Use Nine-Patch image In Detail When you're writing an application in which you would like to perform specialized drawing and/or control the animation of graphics, you should do so by drawing through a canvas. A canvas works for you as an interface to the actual surface upon which your graphics will be drawn-it holds all of your "draw" calls. Via the Android Canvas, your drawing is actually performed on an underlying Bitmap, which is placed into the window. Le...