jwill · August 29, 2015 14:02
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 Knowing the standard widget library is nice, but as someone who was once accused as not so much recreating the wheel as hand machining my own nuts and bolts -- I know there are times when nothing in the toolchest will quite do the job. That’s when it’s time to dive in and build your own custom View from scratch. 
 We’re not including any custom Views in sunshine, but let’s take a look at how you *would* build one. 
 You start by creating a new Class for your view [draw]
 If you’re building something from scratch rather than modifying an existing View, it should descend from either View itself [Draw]...or SurfaceView [Draw]
 View offers a lightweight canvas-based approach, while SurfaceView is designed specifically to support UI elements that require rapid redraws and / or 3D graphics using something like openGL. It’s perfect for Views that display games or Videos.
 The existing widget library Views are descended from View, so let’s take that approach [Circle View].
 The base View class draws [Draw] an empty, borderless 100x100 pixel box.
 To change that we override the onMeasure handler [draw] to indicate the View’s size,
 and onDraw [draw] to draw its content.
 If your View should always be an empty 100 pixel square, you’re in luck! Otherwise, we need to do some work. Let’s start by setting its size.

	Knowing the standard widget library is nice, but as someone who was once accused as not so much recreating the wheel as hand machining my own nuts and bolts -- I know there are times when nothing in the toolchest will quite do the job. That’s when it’s time to dive in and build your own custom View from scratch.
	We’re not including any custom Views in sunshine, but let’s take a look at how you would build one.
	You start by creating a new Class for your view [draw]
	If you’re building something from scratch rather than modifying an existing View, it should descend from either View itself [Draw]...or SurfaceView [Draw]
	View offers a lightweight canvas-based approach, while SurfaceView is designed specifically to support UI elements that require rapid redraws and / or 3D graphics using something like openGL. It’s perfect for Views that display games or Videos.
	The existing widget library Views are descended from View, so let’s take that approach [Circle View].
	The base View class draws [Draw] an empty, borderless 100x100 pixel box.
	To change that we override the onMeasure handler [draw] to indicate the View’s size,
	and onDraw [draw] to draw its content.
	If your View should always be an empty 100 pixel square, you’re in luck! Otherwise, we need to do some work. Let’s start by setting its size.