Android customview ondraw variable

Question

I have a customview where i display two rectangles. i want to set the height by a variable i sent from the mainactivity.

my customview class is the following.

package com.example.customview;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;

public class MyView extends View {
    Paint paint;
    Paint paint2;

    public MyView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        paint = new Paint();
        paint2 = new Paint();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

        paint.setColor(Color.RED);
        paint2.setColor(Color.DKGRAY);
        canvas.drawRect(150, 0, 200, 100, paint);
        canvas.drawRect(200, 0, 250, 150, paint2);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        setMeasuredDimension(400, 300); 
    }

}

And the mainclass is standard

package com.example.customview;


import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }
}

how can i change the height from the oncreate or onstart.

Thanks all for helping.

Answer 1

you need to send data from main activity and receive it from MyView. when you create the intent for opening new activity from main use

_YourIntent_.putExtra(_tag_,_yourData_);
startActivityForResult(_YourIntent_, result);

//put extra is simply for sending data, and to receive it the other hand , oncreate use this;

Intent x = getIntent();``
//now get the data
int _yourvariable_ = x.getExtras().getString(_tag_).toint;

Answer 2

You need create a varibale and set it from Activity. For example:

private int mHeight = 0;

 @Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

    paint.setColor(Color.RED);
    paint2.setColor(Color.DKGRAY);
    canvas.drawRect(150, 0, 200, 150 + mHeight, paint);
    canvas.drawRect(200, 0, 250, 200 + mHeight, paint2);
}

public void setRectHeight(final int height) {
    mHeight = height;
    invalidate();
}

And set the height in your activity:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    MyView view = (MyView)findViewById(R.id.my_view);
    view.setHeight(50);
}