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View.WillNotCacheDrawing Method

Definition

Returns whether or not this View can cache its drawing or not.

[Android.Runtime.Register("willNotCacheDrawing", "()Z", "GetWillNotCacheDrawingHandler")]
public virtual bool WillNotCacheDrawing ();
[<Android.Runtime.Register("willNotCacheDrawing", "()Z", "GetWillNotCacheDrawingHandler")>]
abstract member WillNotCacheDrawing : unit -> bool
override this.WillNotCacheDrawing : unit -> bool

Returns

true if this view does not cache its drawing, false otherwise

Attributes

Remarks

Returns whether or not this View can cache its drawing or not.

This member is deprecated. The view drawing cache was largely made obsolete with the introduction of hardware-accelerated rendering in API 11. With hardware-acceleration, intermediate cache layers are largely unnecessary and can easily result in a net loss in performance due to the cost of creating and updating the layer. In the rare cases where caching layers are useful, such as for alpha animations, #setLayerType(int, Paint) handles this with hardware rendering. For software-rendered snapshots of a small part of the View hierarchy or individual Views it is recommended to create a Canvas from either a Bitmap or android.graphics.Picture and call #draw(Canvas) on the View. However these software-rendered usages are discouraged and have compatibility issues with hardware-only rendering features such as android.graphics.Bitmap.Config#HARDWARE Config.HARDWARE bitmaps, real-time shadows, and outline clipping. For screenshots of the UI for feedback reports or unit testing the PixelCopy API is recommended.

Java documentation for android.view.View.willNotCacheDrawing().

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Applies to