SOLVED: I fixed the problem, it had to do with the constraints in my layout.
I am trying to create a custom view that for the time being simply displays a chart. This is my custom View class:
public class ChartView extends View {
private final Paint paint;
public ChartView(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet) {
super(context, attributeSet);
setWillNotDraw(false);
paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.BLUE);
paint.setStrokeWidth(5);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
}
@Override
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
Log.d("View ", "onDraw called");
int x = getWidth();
int y = getHeight();
int divX = x / 5;
int divY = y / 7;
for (int i = 0; i <= 5; i++) {
canvas.drawLine(divX * i, 0, divX * i, y, paint);
Log.d("View", "line drawn");
}
for (int i = 0; i <= 7; i++) {
canvas.drawLine(0, divY * i, x, divY * i, paint);
Log.d("View", "line drawn");
}
}
}
At first I assumed onDraw() must not ever have been called, but I added the log messages and it was in fact being called and each line in the chart was being drawn. I also have overridden onMeausure() so I don't think thats the problem.
Just to test if anything would be drawn at all I added in a test TextView which appeared just fine. I Then found that my chartView instance in the Main activity was null because I didn't call the parent constructor properly. I fixed that though and still nothing was drawn. However, when I fixed the problem with the parent constructor, the TextView also disappeared.
This is my Main Activity:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private ChartView chartView;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Intent mainIntent = getIntent();
boolean testPassed = mainIntent.getBooleanExtra("test", false);
if (testPassed) {
Log.d("Main", "intents test passed");
}
chartView = (ChartView) findViewById(R.id.chartView);
}
and this is my layout XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:visibility="visible"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<Views.ChartView
android:id="@+id/chartView"
android:layout_width="425dp"
android:layout_height="634dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="601dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.0" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView"
android:layout_width="260dp"
android:layout_height="292dp"
android:layout_marginTop="256dp"
android:text="TextView"
android:textSize="100dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/chartView"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/chartView"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.582"
app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/chartView"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/chartView"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.801" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
Any help would be appreciated.