On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:22 AM, waterblood <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Does the bitmap data we write to Canvas is the same as we write to
> the back buffer to that surface, which means surface will not copy the
> data in Canvas to back buffer then swap the backbuffer with front
> buffer, or it will do the copy operation?


Surfaces are normally double-buffered.  How that is implemented is an
implementation detail.  The current impl simply re-composites all surfaces
to the screen when one of them needs to be updated, so there is a (possibly
hardware-accelerated) blit of all surfaces after one is posted.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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