[android] Draw in Canvas by finger, Android

I need to build a project for drawing on canvas by fingers,

to get the touch event and motion event of my finger, and thence draw.

Any one can advice me how to get start in project,

and what is best component to do thing like this?

tutorial to draw line use Bitmap, Canvas, and Paint class. draw-line-on-finger-touch and androiddraw

here one simple class to draw line using canvas as show below.

    public class TestLineView extends View {

    private Paint paint;
    private PointF startPoint, endPoint;
    private boolean isDrawing;

    public TestLineView(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
        init();
    }

    private void init()
    {
        paint = new Paint();
        paint.setColor(Color.RED);
        paint.setStyle(Style.STROKE);
        paint.setStrokeWidth(2);
        paint.setAntiAlias(true);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas)
    {
        if(isDrawing)
        {
            canvas.drawLine(startPoint.x, startPoint.y, endPoint.x, endPoint.y, paint);
        }
    }


    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event)
    {
        switch (event.getAction())
        {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                startPoint = new PointF(event.getX(), event.getY());
                endPoint = new PointF();
                isDrawing = true;
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                if(isDrawing)
                {
                    endPoint.x = event.getX();
                    endPoint.y = event.getY();
                    invalidate();
                }
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                if(isDrawing)
                {
                    endPoint.x = event.getX();
                    endPoint.y = event.getY();
                    isDrawing = false;
                    invalidate();
                }
                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
        return true;
    }
}

Regarding the beautiful code of Raghunandan above.

Many have asked how to "clear" the drawing. Here's how to do that:

public void clearDrawing()
    {
    Utils.Log("RaghunandanDraw, how to clear....");

    setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
    // don't forget that one and the match below,
    // or you just keep getting a duplicate when you save.

    onSizeChanged(width, height, width, height);
    invalidate();

    setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
    }

@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh)
    {
    super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);

    width = w;      // don't forget these
    height = h;

    mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    mCanvas = new Canvas(mBitmap);
    }

Many have asked how to "save" the drawing. Here's how to do that:

public DrawingView(Context c)
  {
  circlePaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.MITER);
  circlePaint.setStrokeWidth(4f); 
  etc...

  // in the class where you set up the view, add this:
  setDrawingCacheEnabled( true );
  }

public void saveDrawing()
  {
  Bitmap whatTheUserDrewBitmap = getDrawingCache();
  // don't forget to clear it (see above) or you just get duplicates

  // almost always you will want to reduce res from the very high screen res
  whatTheUserDrewBitmap =
         ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail(whatTheUserDrewBitmap, 256, 256);
  // NOTE that's an incredibly useful trick for cropping/resizing squares
  // while handling all memory problems etc
  // http://stackoverflow.com/a/17733530/294884

  // you can now save the bitmap to a file, or display it in an ImageView:
  ImageView testArea = ...
  testArea.setImageBitmap( whatTheUserDrewBitmap );

  // these days you often need a "byte array". for example,
  // to save to parse.com or other cloud services
  ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  whatTheUserDrewBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 0, baos);
  byte[] yourByteArray;
  yourByteArray = baos.toByteArray();
  }

Hope it helps someone as this has helped me.

You can use this class simply:

public class DoodleCanvas  extends View{

    private Paint mPaint;
    private Path mPath;

    public DoodleCanvas(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        mPaint = new Paint();
        mPaint.setColor(Color.RED);
        mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
        mPaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
        mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
        mPaint.setStrokeWidth(10);
        mPath = new Path();
    }


    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        canvas.drawPath(mPath, mPaint);
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }


    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {

        switch (event.getAction()){

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                mPath.moveTo(event.getX(), event.getY());
                break;

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                mPath.lineTo(event.getX(), event.getY());
                invalidate();
                break;

            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                break;
        }

        return true;
    }
}

I think it's important to add a thing, if you use the layout inflation that constructor in the drawview is not correct, add these constructors in the class:

public DrawingView(Context c, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(c, attrs);
    ...
}

public DrawingView(Context c, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(c, attrs, defStyle);
    ...
}

or the android system fails to inflate the layout file. I hope this could to help.

In addition to Ishan's answer, if you want to draw programatically without user interaction, you can edit the class just a little like this.

public class DrawingCanvas extends View {

private Paint mPaint;
private Path mPath;
private boolean isUserInteractionEnabled = false;

public DrawingCanvas(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    mPaint = new Paint();
    mPaint.setColor(Color.RED);
    mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
    mPaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
    mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
    mPaint.setStrokeWidth(10);
    mPath = new Path();
}


@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    canvas.drawPath(mPath, mPaint);
    super.onDraw(canvas);
}


@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (isUserInteractionEnabled) {
        switch (event.getAction()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                mPath.moveTo(event.getX(), event.getY());
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                mPath.lineTo(event.getX(), event.getY());
                invalidate();
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                break;
        }
    }

    return true;
}

public void moveCursorTo(float x, float y) {
    mPath.moveTo(x, y);
}

public void makeLine(float toX, float toY) {
    mPath.lineTo(toX, toY);
}

public void setUserInteractionEnabled(boolean userInteractionEnabled) {
    isUserInteractionEnabled = userInteractionEnabled;
}
}

And then use it like

drawingCanvas.setUserInteractionEnabled(true) // to enable user interaction
drawingCanvas.setUserInteractionEnabled(true) // to disable user interaction

To Draw programatically

drawingCanvas.moveCursorTo(70f, 70f) // Move the cursor (Define starting point)
drawingCanvas.makeLine(200f, 200f) // End point (To where you need to draw)