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View.DrawingCacheEnabled Property

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Definition

Namespace:
Android.Views
Assembly:
Mono.Android.dll

Indicates whether the drawing cache is enabled for this view. -or- Enables or disables the drawing cache.

public virtual bool DrawingCacheEnabled { [Android.Runtime.Register("isDrawingCacheEnabled", "()Z", "GetIsDrawingCacheEnabledHandler")] get; [Android.Runtime.Register("setDrawingCacheEnabled", "(Z)V", "GetSetDrawingCacheEnabled_ZHandler")] set; }
[<get: Android.Runtime.Register("isDrawingCacheEnabled", "()Z", "GetIsDrawingCacheEnabledHandler")>]
[<set: Android.Runtime.Register("setDrawingCacheEnabled", "(Z)V", "GetSetDrawingCacheEnabled_ZHandler")>]
member this.DrawingCacheEnabled : bool with get, set

Property Value

Boolean

true if the drawing cache is enabled

Attributes
RegisterAttribute

Remarks

Property getter documentation:

Indicates whether the drawing cache is enabled for this view.

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.isDrawingCacheEnabled().

Property setter documentation:

Enables or disables the drawing cache. When the drawing cache is enabled, the next call to #getDrawingCache() or #buildDrawingCache() will draw the view in a bitmap. Calling #draw(android.graphics.Canvas) will not draw from the cache when the cache is enabled. To benefit from the cache, you must request the drawing cache by calling #getDrawingCache() and draw it on screen if the returned bitmap is not null.

Enabling the drawing cache is similar to #setLayerType(int, android.graphics.Paint) setting a layer when hardware acceleration is turned off. When hardware acceleration is turned on, enabling the drawing cache has no effect on rendering because the system uses a different mechanism for acceleration which ignores the flag. If you want to use a Bitmap for the view, even when hardware acceleration is enabled, see #setLayerType(int, android.graphics.Paint) for information on how to enable software and hardware layers.

This API can be used to manually generate a bitmap copy of this view, by setting the flag to true and calling #getDrawingCache().

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.setDrawingCacheEnabled(boolean).

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