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Published inNov 2017
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Jason Morris
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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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  1. When rendering specialized graphics for a custom widget, you need to do which of these?
    • Buffer all the rendering in an offscreen Bitmap
    • Set a custom background Drawable
    • Override the onDraw method
  1. Where should you create instances of graphics primitives such as Drawable, Paint and Path for rendering in onDraw?
    • On the main thread
    • In the onDraw method
    • Anywhere that doesn't affect onDraw directly
  2. What are the two phases involved in the layout process?
    • Layout and then measurement
    • Measurement and then layout
    • Measurement and then rendering
  3. When painting a Drawable object, you need to do which of the following?
    • Pass it a valid Canvas object
    • Use Canvas.paintDrawable
    • Invoke its onDraw method
  4. To tell the platform that a widget needs to repaint itself (from the main thread), you use which of these?
    • View.redraw()
    • View.invalidate()
    • View.repaint()
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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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