Android官方原文地址：http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html
------以下的翻译融入了自己的思考，便于理解，很多地方翻译并不是很恰当，所以配上了英文原文
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On a View 在视图组件上（View）上[/title3]
If your application does not require a significant amount of processing or frame-rate speed (perhaps for a chess game, a snake game, or another slowly-animated application), then you should consider creating a custom View component and drawing with a Canvas
in
View.onDraw()
.
The most convenient aspect of doing so is that the Android framework will provide you with a pre-defined Canvas to which you will place your drawing calls.
如果你的应用不需要大量的处理或没有帧速率要求，像棋牌类游戏、贪吃蛇、或者慢动画应用，你可以考虑创建一个自定义视图组件（View）并且使用画板（Canvas）在View.onDraw()方法里绘制。这样做最大的方便之处在于Android框架层将为你提供一个预先定义好的画板（Canvas），你可以使用该Canvas进行绘制。
To start, extend the
View
class (or descendant
thereof) and define the
onDraw()
callback
method. This method will be called by the Android framework to request that your View draw itself. This is where you will perform all your calls to draw through the
Canvas
,
which is passed to you through the
onDraw()
callback.
首先，继承View类（或者子类），并且定义onDraw（）回调方法。该方法将会被Android框架层调用，使得你的View绘制自己。在这个地方将要执行你需要的所有绘制调用，并且Canvas会通过onDraw（）回调方法传入。
The Android framework will only call
onDraw()
as necessary. Each time that your application is prepared to be drawn, you must request your View be invalidated by calling
invalidate()
.
This indicates that you'd like your View to be drawn and Android will then call your
onDraw()
method (though is not guaranteed that the callback will be instantaneous).
Android框架层只会在需要的时候调用onDraw（）方法。每次当你的应用准备好需要去绘制的时候，你必须通过invalidate（）方法使你的View无效。这表示你想要你的View被绘制并且Android将要回调你的onDraw（）方法(不保证这个回调将会被及时执行)
Inside your View component's
onDraw()
, use the Canvas given to you for all your drawing, using various
Canvas.draw...()
methods,
or other class
draw()
methods that take your Canvas as an argument. Once your
onDraw()
is complete, the Android
framework will use your Canvas to draw a Bitmap handled by the system.
在你的View组件里的onDraw（）方法中，使用给你的Canvas作你所有的绘制，使用各种各样的Canvas.draw...（）方法，或者其他类的Draw（）方法，这个类能够把给你的Canvas作为参数传入。一旦你的onDraw（）方法完成，Android框架将要用你的Canvas去绘制一张位图。
Note: In order to request an invalidate from a thread other than your main Activity's thread, you must call
postInvalidate()