Draw line on Canvas in Android

You can draw different type of line on Canvas in Android. You can change it’s color, stroke, effect, etc. Here we will see the basics of drawing line on Canvas.

Checkout the basics of Canvas if you are new to Canvas: Draw Canvas on ImageView

Here is the example of different parameters you can apply to draw a line on Canvas in Android.

Draw line on Canvas

//simple line
Paint p1 = new Paint();
p1.setAntiAlias(true);
p1.setColor(Color.BLACK);
p1.setStrokeWidth(10);
canvas.drawLine(10, 40, 400, 40, p1);

//line with color
Paint p2 = new Paint();
p2.setAntiAlias(true);
p2.setColor(Color.RED);
p2.setStrokeWidth(10);
canvas.drawLine(10, 80, 400, 80, p2);

//line with round ends
Paint p3 = new Paint();
p3.setAntiAlias(true);
p3.setColor(Color.BLUE);
p3.setStrokeWidth(10);
p3.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
canvas.drawLine(10, 120, 400, 120, p3);

//slanted line
Paint p4 = new Paint();
p4.setAntiAlias(true);
p4.setColor(Color.GREEN);
p4.setStrokeWidth(10);
canvas.drawLine(10, 160, 400, 200, p4);

Here we use AntiAlias flag to true to remove distortion in the lines.

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