Question

I have some C# experience, but im completly new to java. So i have some questions for someone with more experience.

I would like to draw a simple game board of for example 10×10 grey boxes. So i figured a 2d array might be useful:

int gameBoard[][] = new int[10][10];

For each board i would like to draw a grey rectangle, and place it it some control to be rendered on the device.

I suppose this can be done with an instance of Paint and Canvas

And this is where im stuck at the moment. What controls are best suited for this? Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Take a look at this link, it explains very clearly the differences between canvas, paint and bitmap and finishes with an example of an app that draws a colored rectangle and displays it in an ImageView. Hope it can be useful.