Coding the LiveDrawingView class
The first thing we will do is solve the problem of our LiveDrawingView class not being of the View type. Update the class declaration as highlighted, as follows:
class LiveDrawingView extends SurfaceView {You will be prompted to import the android.view.SurfaceView class, as shown in the following screenshot:
Click OK to confirm this.
SurfaceView is a descendant of View and now LiveDrawingView is, by inheritance, also a type of View. Look at the import statement that has been added. This relationship is made clear, as highlighted in the following code:
android.view.SurfaceView
Tip
Remember that it is because of polymorphism ...
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