Added in API level 1

android.graphics

Kotlin |Java

Provides low level graphics tools such as canvases, color filters, points, and rectangles that let you handle drawing to the screen directly.

Interfaces

ImageDecoder.OnHeaderDecodedListener	Interface for changing the default settings of a decode.
ImageDecoder.OnPartialImageListener	Interface for inspecting a `DecodeException` and potentially preventing it from being thrown.
PostProcessor	Helper interface for adding custom processing to an image.
SurfaceTexture.OnFrameAvailableListener	Callback interface for being notified that a new stream frame is available.

Classes

Bitmap
BitmapFactory	Creates Bitmap objects from various sources, including files, streams, and byte-arrays.
BitmapFactory.Options
BitmapRegionDecoder	BitmapRegionDecoder can be used to decode a rectangle region from an image.
BitmapShader	Shader used to draw a bitmap as a texture.
BlendModeColorFilter	A color filter that can be used to tint the source pixels using a single color and a specific `BlendMode`.
BlurMaskFilter	This takes a mask, and blurs its edge by the specified radius.
Camera	A camera instance can be used to compute 3D transformations and generate a matrix that can be applied, for instance, on a `Canvas`.
Canvas	The Canvas class holds the "draw" calls.
Color	The `Color` class provides methods for creating, converting and manipulating colors.
ColorFilter	A color filter can be used with a `Paint` to modify the color of each pixel drawn with that paint.
ColorMatrix	4x5 matrix for transforming the color and alpha components of a Bitmap.
ColorMatrixColorFilter	A color filter that transforms colors through a 4x5 color matrix.
ColorSpace	A `ColorSpace` is used to identify a specific organization of colors.
ColorSpace.Connector	A connector transforms colors from a source color space to a destination color space.
ColorSpace.Rgb	An RGB color space is an additive color space using the `RGB` color model (a color is therefore represented by a tuple of 3 numbers).
ColorSpace.Rgb.TransferParameters	Defines the parameters for the ICC parametric curve type 4, as defined in ICC.1:2004-10, section 10.15.
ComposePathEffect
ComposeShader	A subclass of shader that returns the composition of two other shaders, combined by an `Xfermode` subclass.
CornerPathEffect
DashPathEffect
DiscretePathEffect
DrawFilter	A DrawFilter subclass can be installed in a Canvas.
EmbossMaskFilter
Gainmap	Gainmap represents a mechanism for augmenting an SDR image to produce an HDR one with variable display adjustment capability.
HardwareBufferRenderer	Creates an instance of a hardware-accelerated renderer.
HardwareBufferRenderer.RenderRequest	Sets the parameters that can be used to control a render request for a `HardwareBufferRenderer`.
HardwareBufferRenderer.RenderResult	Class that contains data regarding the result of the render request.
HardwareRenderer	Creates an instance of a hardware-accelerated renderer.
HardwareRenderer.FrameRenderRequest	Sets the parameters that can be used to control a render request for a `HardwareRenderer`.
ImageDecoder	A class for converting encoded images (like `PNG`, `JPEG`, `WEBP`, `GIF`, or `HEIF`) into `Drawable` or `Bitmap` objects.
ImageDecoder.ImageInfo	Information about an encoded image.
ImageDecoder.Source	Source of encoded image data.
ImageFormat
Insets	An Insets instance holds four integer offsets which describe changes to the four edges of a Rectangle.
Interpolator
LightingColorFilter	A color filter that can be used to simulate simple lighting effects.
LinearGradient
MaskFilter	MaskFilter is the base class for object that perform transformations on an alpha-channel mask before drawing it.
Matrix	The Matrix class holds a 3x3 matrix for transforming coordinates.
Matrix44	The Matrix44 class holds a 4x4 matrix for transforming coordinates.
Mesh	Class representing a mesh object.
MeshSpecification	Class responsible for holding specifications for `Mesh` creations.
MeshSpecification.Attribute	Data class to represent a single attribute in a shader.
MeshSpecification.Varying	Data class to represent a single varying variable.
Movie	This class was deprecated in API level 28. Prefer `AnimatedImageDrawable`.
NinePatch	The NinePatch class permits drawing a bitmap in nine or more sections.
Outline	Defines a simple shape, used for bounding graphical regions.
Paint	The Paint class holds the style and color information about how to draw geometries, text and bitmaps.
Paint.FontMetrics	Class that describes the various metrics for a font at a given text size.
Paint.FontMetricsInt	Convenience method for callers that want to have FontMetrics values as integers.
PaintFlagsDrawFilter
ParcelableColorSpace	A `Parcelable` wrapper for a `ColorSpace`.
Path	The Path class encapsulates compound (multiple contour) geometric paths consisting of straight line segments, quadratic curves, and cubic curves.
PathDashPathEffect
PathEffect	PathEffect is the base class for objects in the Paint that affect the geometry of a drawing primitive before it is transformed by the canvas' matrix and drawn.
PathIterator	`PathIterator` can be used to query a given `Path` object, to discover its operations and point values.
PathIterator.Segment	This class holds the data for a given segment in a path, as returned by `PathIterator.next()`.
PathMeasure
Picture	A Picture records drawing calls (via the canvas returned by beginRecording) and can then play them back into Canvas (via `Picture#draw(Canvas)` or `Canvas#drawPicture(Picture)`).For most content (e.g.
PixelFormat
Point	Point holds two integer coordinates
PointF	PointF holds two float coordinates
PorterDuff	This class contains the list of alpha compositing and blending modes that can be passed to `PorterDuffXfermode`, a specialized implementation of `Paint`'s `transfer mode`.
PorterDuffColorFilter	A color filter that can be used to tint the source pixels using a single color and a specific `Porter-Duff composite mode`.
PorterDuffXfermode	Specialized implementation of `Paint`'s `transfer mode`.
RadialGradient
RecordingCanvas	A Canvas implementation that records view system drawing operations for deferred rendering.
Rect	Rect holds four integer coordinates for a rectangle.
RectF	RectF holds four float coordinates for a rectangle.
Region
RegionIterator
RenderEffect	Intermediate rendering step used to render drawing commands with a corresponding visual effect.
RenderNode	RenderNode is used to build hardware accelerated rendering hierarchies.
RuntimeShader	A `RuntimeShader` calculates a per-pixel color based on the output of a user defined Android Graphics Shading Language (AGSL) function.
Shader	Shader is the base class for objects that return horizontal spans of colors during drawing.
SumPathEffect
SurfaceTexture	Captures frames from an image stream as an OpenGL ES texture.
SweepGradient
Typeface	The Typeface class specifies the typeface and intrinsic style of a font.
Typeface.Builder	A builder class for creating new Typeface instance.
Typeface.CustomFallbackBuilder	A builder class for creating new Typeface instance.
Xfermode	Xfermode is the base class for objects that are called to implement custom "transfer-modes" in the drawing pipeline.
YuvImage	YuvImage contains YUV data and provides a method that compresses a region of the YUV data to a Jpeg.

Enums

Bitmap.CompressFormat	Specifies the known formats a bitmap can be compressed into
Bitmap.Config	Possible bitmap configurations.
BlendMode
BlurMaskFilter.Blur
Canvas.EdgeType	This enum was deprecated in API level 30. quickReject no longer uses this.
Canvas.VertexMode
ColorSpace.Adaptation	List of adaptation matrices that can be used for chromatic adaptation using the von Kries transform.
ColorSpace.Model	A color model is required by a `ColorSpace` to describe the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers.
ColorSpace.Named	List of common, named color spaces.
ColorSpace.RenderIntent	A render intent determines how a `connector` maps colors from one color space to another.
Interpolator.Result
Matrix.ScaleToFit	Controls how the src rect should align into the dst rect for setRectToRect().
Paint.Align	Align specifies how drawText aligns its text relative to the [x,y] coordinates.
Paint.Cap	The Cap specifies the treatment for the beginning and ending of stroked lines and paths.
Paint.Join	The Join specifies the treatment where lines and curve segments join on a stroked path.
Paint.Style	The Style specifies if the primitive being drawn is filled, stroked, or both (in the same color).
Path.Direction	Specifies how closed shapes (e.g. rects, ovals) are oriented when they are added to a path.
Path.FillType	Enum for the ways a path may be filled.
Path.Op	The logical operations that can be performed when combining two paths.
PathDashPathEffect.Style
PorterDuff.Mode	The name of the parent class is an homage to the work of Thomas Porter and Tom Duff, presented in their seminal 1984 paper titled "Compositing Digital Images".
Region.Op
Shader.TileMode

Exceptions

ImageDecoder.DecodeException	Information about an interrupted decode.
SurfaceTexture.OutOfResourcesException	This class was deprecated in API level 19. No longer thrown. `Surface.OutOfResourcesException` is used instead.