Android How to draw a smooth line following your finger
Solution 1:
An easy solution, as you mentioned, is to simply connect the points with a straight line. Here's the code to do so:
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
Path path = new Path();
boolean first = true;
for(Point point : points){
if(first){
first = false;
path.moveTo(point.x, point.y);
}
else{
path.lineTo(point.x, point.y);
}
}
canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
}
make sure you change your paint from fill to stroke:
paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
paint.setStrokeWidth(2);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
Another option is to connect the points with iterpolation using the quadTo method:
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
Path path = new Path();
boolean first = true;
for(int i = 0; i < points.size(); i += 2){
Point point = points.get(i);
if(first){
first = false;
path.moveTo(point.x, point.y);
}
else if(i < points.size() - 1){
Point next = points.get(i + 1);
path.quadTo(point.x, point.y, next.x, next.y);
}
else{
path.lineTo(point.x, point.y);
}
}
canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
}
This still results in some sharp edges.
If you're really ambitious, you can start to calculate the cubic splines as follows:
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
Path path = new Path();
if(points.size() > 1){
for(int i = points.size() - 2; i < points.size(); i++){
if(i >= 0){
Point point = points.get(i);
if(i == 0){
Point next = points.get(i + 1);
point.dx = ((next.x - point.x) / 3);
point.dy = ((next.y - point.y) / 3);
}
else if(i == points.size() - 1){
Point prev = points.get(i - 1);
point.dx = ((point.x - prev.x) / 3);
point.dy = ((point.y - prev.y) / 3);
}
else{
Point next = points.get(i + 1);
Point prev = points.get(i - 1);
point.dx = ((next.x - prev.x) / 3);
point.dy = ((next.y - prev.y) / 3);
}
}
}
}
boolean first = true;
for(int i = 0; i < points.size(); i++){
Point point = points.get(i);
if(first){
first = false;
path.moveTo(point.x, point.y);
}
else{
Point prev = points.get(i - 1);
path.cubicTo(prev.x + prev.dx, prev.y + prev.dy, point.x - point.dx, point.y - point.dy, point.x, point.y);
}
}
canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
}
Also, I found that you needed to change the following to avoid duplicate motion events:
public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
if(event.getAction() != MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
Point point = new Point();
point.x = event.getX();
point.y = event.getY();
points.add(point);
invalidate();
Log.d(TAG, "point: " + point);
return true;
}
return super.onTouchEvent(event);
}
and add the dx & dy values to the Point class:
class Point {
float x, y;
float dx, dy;
@Override
public String toString() {
return x + ", " + y;
}
}
This produces smooth lines, but sometimes has to connect the dots using a loop. Also, for long drawing sessions, this becomes computationally intensive to calculate.
Hope that helps... fun stuff to play around with.
Edit
I threw together a quick project demonstrating these different techniques, including Square's suggessted signature implementation. Enjoy: https://github.com/johncarl81/androiddraw
Solution 2:
This might be not important anymore for you but I struggled a lot to solve it and I want to share, might be useful to someone else.
The tutorial with the solution @johncarl offered are great to drawing but they offered a limitation for my purposes. If you take your finger out of the screen and put it back, this solution will draw a line between the last click and your new click, making the whole drawing connected always. So I was trying to find a solution for that, and finally I got it!( sorry if sounds obvious, I am a beginner with graphics)
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
DrawView drawView;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Set full screen view
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
drawView = new DrawView(this);
setContentView(drawView);
drawView.requestFocus();
}
}
public class DrawingPanel extends View implements OnTouchListener {
private static final String TAG = "DrawView";
private static final float MINP = 0.25f;
private static final float MAXP = 0.75f;
private Canvas mCanvas;
private Path mPath;
private Paint mPaint;
private LinkedList<Path> paths = new LinkedList<Path>();
public DrawingPanel(Context context) {
super(context);
setFocusable(true);
setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
this.setOnTouchListener(this);
mPaint = new Paint();
mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
mPaint.setDither(true);
mPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
mPaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
mPaint.setStrokeWidth(6);
mCanvas = new Canvas();
mPath = new Path();
paths.add(mPath);
}
@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
}
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
for (Path p : paths){
canvas.drawPath(p, mPaint);
}
}
private float mX, mY;
private static final float TOUCH_TOLERANCE = 4;
private void touch_start(float x, float y) {
mPath.reset();
mPath.moveTo(x, y);
mX = x;
mY = y;
}
private void touch_move(float x, float y) {
float dx = Math.abs(x - mX);
float dy = Math.abs(y - mY);
if (dx >= TOUCH_TOLERANCE || dy >= TOUCH_TOLERANCE) {
mPath.quadTo(mX, mY, (x + mX)/2, (y + mY)/2);
mX = x;
mY = y;
}
}
private void touch_up() {
mPath.lineTo(mX, mY);
// commit the path to our offscreen
mCanvas.drawPath(mPath, mPaint);
// kill this so we don't double draw
mPath = new Path();
paths.add(mPath);
}
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent event) {
float x = event.getX();
float y = event.getY();
switch (event.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
touch_start(x, y);
invalidate();
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
touch_move(x, y);
invalidate();
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
touch_up();
invalidate();
break;
}
return true;
}
}
I took the android sample for drawing with your finger and modified it a little to store every path instead of just the last one! Hope it helps someone!
Cheers.
Solution 3:
I have experimented with several ways to render the accumulated points of the motion events. In the end I had the best results by calculating the mid-points between two points and treating the points in the list as anchor points of quadratic Bezier curves (except the first and last point which are connected by simple lines to the next mid-point).
This gives a smooth curve without any corners. The drawn path will not touch the actual points in the list but go through every mid-point.
Path path = new Path();
if (points.size() > 1) {
Point prevPoint = null;
for (int i = 0; i < points.size(); i++) {
Point point = points.get(i);
if (i == 0) {
path.moveTo(point.x, point.y);
} else {
float midX = (prevPoint.x + point.x) / 2;
float midY = (prevPoint.y + point.y) / 2;
if (i == 1) {
path.lineTo(midX, midY);
} else {
path.quadTo(prevPoint.x, prevPoint.y, midX, midY);
}
}
prevPoint = point;
}
path.lineTo(prevPoint.x, prevPoint.y);
}
Solution 4:
If you want it simple:
public class DrawByFingerCanvas extends View {
private Paint brush = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
private Path path = new Path();
public DrawByFingerCanvas(Context context) {
super(context);
brush.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
brush.setStrokeWidth(5);
}
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas c) {
c.drawPath(path, brush);
}
@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
float x = event.getX();
float y = event.getY();
switch (event.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
path.moveTo(x,y);
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
path.lineTo(x, y);
break;
default:
return false;
}
invalidate();
return true;
}
}
In the activity just:
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(new DrawByFingerCanvas(this));
}
Result:
To erase all drawings just rotate the screen.
Solution 5:
I had very similar problem. When you're calling onTouch method, you should also use method (inside onTouch(MotionEvent event))
event.getHistorySize();
and something like that
int histPointsAmount = event.getHistorySize();
for(int i = 0; i < histPointsAmount; i++){
// get points from event.getHistoricalX(i);
// event.getHistoricalY(i); and use them for your purpouse
}