If you are using your own CustomView extending View class, you need to call canvas.invalidate() method which will internally call onDraw method. You can use default API for canvas to draw a circle. The x, y cordinate define the center of the circle. You can also define color and styling in paint & pass the paint object.
public class CustomView extends View {
public CustomView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
setupPaint();
}
}
Define default paint settings and canvas (Initialise paint in constructor so that you can reuse the same object everywhere and change only specific settings wherever required)
private Paint drawPaint;
// Setup paint with color and stroke styles
private void setupPaint() {
drawPaint = new Paint();
drawPaint.setColor(Color.BLUE);
drawPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
drawPaint.setStrokeWidth(5);
drawPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL_AND_STROKE);
drawPaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
drawPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
}
And initialise canvas object
private Canvas canvas;
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
this.canvas = canvas;
canvas.drawCircle(xCordinate, yCordinate, RADIUS, drawPaint);
}
And finally, for every view refresh or new draw on the screen, you need to call invalidate method. Remember your entire view is redrawn, hence this is an expensive call. Make sure you do only the necessary operations in onDraw
canvas.invalidate();
For more details on canvas drawing refer https://medium.com/@mayuri.k18/android-canvas-for-drawing-and-custom-views-e1a3e90d468b