Android :: Bitmap.Config.ARGB 4444 Slow To Draw
May 18, 2009
I'm doing performance tweaks for my new game and I seem to have come across something that isn't discussed much but I think is strange.
I have a static background bitmap loaded as RGB_565 and it draws lightning fast to the SurfaceView.
I then have all of the dynamic stuff, one of which is a full view width/height bitmap and all of these things need transparency so they are ARGB_8888. I thought that switching to ARGB_4444 for everything would speed up drawing because that's half the number of bytes to process but what I'm finding is that under no circumstances is 2D drawing any faster with ARGB_4444. All my tests are showing that it's actually twice as slow to draw an ARGB_4444 bitmap than a ARGB_8888 one on to the default RGB_565 surface!
Would any engineers care to enlighten me as to why this is? Is ARGB_8888 the fastest way to draw bitmaps with transparency?
My target platform is 1.0, btw. My friend just got a new phone and out of the box it was 1.0, not even 1.1, so I want to make sure this works as a first app on new phones. If there are 1.5-specific tweaks, I will incorporate them in a few months but for now it's gotta run well on 1.0.
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Apr 2, 2009
I am 1) taking a picture and 2) then draw another Bitmap on top of it 3) then I store it
I am doing it as follows and it works on the emulator.
On the device I get a OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCopy(Native Method) android.graphics.Bitmap.copy(Bitmap.java:199) in the line copy the Bitmap to get a mutable Bitmap.
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What I am asking:
a) Is there a better way to do what I am doing? 1) take a picture 2) draw another Bitmap on top of it 3) then I store it
b) What is the best way to create a mutable Bitmap from the picture I just took with the camera?
In my app, resolution is not an issue. If it works better for small photos that would be fine.
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Oct 8, 2009
I have two questions actually:
Is it better to draw an image on a bitmap or create a bitmap as resource and then draw it over a bitmap? Performance wise... which one is better?
If I want to draw something transparent over a bitmap, how would I go about doing it?
If I want to overlay one transparent bitmap over another, how would I do it?
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Mar 22, 2009
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canvas.drawCircle(0,0,20,20);
//does Bitmap b have the circle drawn on it next time?
Or how do I get the bitmap after its been drawn on with the canvas(I want to preserve a stack of bitmaps with the changes applied by canvas drawing)? Maybe I'm going about this entirely wrong.
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Now, I would like to implement a screenshot feature. For normal views, it seems that the standard practice is to create a new Canvas with a Bitmap and then draw to that Canvas using View.onDraw(Canvas).
I've tried using SurfaceView.draw(Canvas) in a similar fashion, but it always results in a blank (black) image.
I've also tried using the drawing cache with the exact same result.
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Nov 12, 2009
I've been trying almost everything and been searching and reading everywhere on the net. I just can't seem to find the correct way of doing this.
I have a MapActivity with a MapView and I want to draw something on an Overlay. I'm overwriting the draw-method, and I can easily draw straight on the canvas using a paint. My problem is I want to merge some circles and afterwards color them. Therefore I want to create a Bitmap and then draw on that. I just don't know what to use. Should I use a mutable Bitmap, a BitmapDrawable or am I simply going in the wrong direction.
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If true, how can I do this?
Actually, I can draw it in JAVA code, but it's too slow and costs too much CPU time. So I want to try drawing it with OpenGL. Is there any other advises? Or maybe OpenGL can't be the right answer?
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I have seen the Canvas method: public void drawBitmap (Bitmap bitmap, Rect src, RectF dst, Paint paint)
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When it should look like............
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Try as I might, I can't figure out how to draw the text in the correct order.
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UPDATE: I have posted the most important sections of my current code below. I am not really happy with it for the following reasons:
Drawing is quite sluggish. What can I improve here?
I am looking for a way to use an alpha mask in order to set the pixel transparency/alpha of the pixels as I want to simulate a paint brush. Any suggestions how this could be achieved?
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how to fit image in screen without pain?
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here's what i use to create and draw my maps:
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In my android application I use this method in "draw" Overlay class for draw route on map. Can someone tell me if this method is good (in terms of performance) for route draw on map or I must to put code in Thread ??
I'm new to android.
public synchronized void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapView, boolean shadow) {
if (pointsAndTimes.isEmpty()) {
return;
}
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paint.setARGB(250, 255, 0, 0);.............
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