I'm trying to clip a canvas drawing operation to an arc-shaped wedge. However, I'm not getting the intended result after setting the clipping path to the canvas.
For illustration, here is what I'm doing:
path.reset();
//Move to point #1
path.moveTo(rect.centerX(), rect.centerY());
//Per the documentation, this will draw a connecting line from the current
//position to the starting position of the arc (at 0 degrees), add the arc
//and my current position now lies at #2.
path.arcTo(rect, 0, -30);
//This should then close the path, finishing back at the center point (#3)
path.close();
This works, and when I simply draw this path (canvas.drawPath(path, paint)
) it draws the wedge as shown above. However, when I set this path as the canvas's clipping path and draw into it:
//I've tried it with and without the Region.Op parameter
canvas.clipPath(path, Region.Op.REPLACE);
canvas.drawColor(Color.BLUE);
I get the following result instead (the wedge is left just to show reference):
So it instead seems to clip to the bounding rect of the Path
, and not the Path
itself. Any ideas what's happening here?
EDIT Just as an update, I've found a much more efficient way of doing this that allows for hardware acceleration. First, draw the entire image (that you'd be clipping) into an offscreen bitmap. Make a BitmapShader
using this Bitmap
, set that shader to a Paint
, then draw the wedge path using that Paint
object:
drawMyBitmap(bitmap);
Shader shader = new BitmapShader(bitmap, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
paint.setShader(shader);
@Override
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
canvas.drawArc(rect, //The rectangle bounding the circle
startAngle, //The angle (CW from 3 o'clock) to start
sweepAngle, //The angle (CW from 3 o'clock) of the arc
true, //Boolean of whether to draw a filled arc (wedge)
paint //The paint with the shader attached
);
}
Are you using HC or above or otherwise using hardware acceleration?
If so, clipPath is unsupported and problematic.
developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html.