Learn to make a Paint Application by using this PaintView library for Android

2 min readMar 19, 2021

Hello everyone!

if you want to make an application or required Drawing in your project then this the best place for you.

today we will learn how to implement PaintView in your app.

I found an amazing library for it which is PaintView. We should say thanks to GURUDATT DAHARE for making this library for us.

So this is the Official link for Github Libary Repository: Click here

How to implement :

Step 1: Add it to your root build.gradle at the end of repositories

allprojects {
		repositories {
			...
			maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}

Step 2: Add dependencies

dependencies {
          implementation 'com.github.GURUDATTDAHARE:PaintView:<latest version>'
  }

Step 3: Add PaintView tag in your .xml file where you want drawing

<com.gurudattdahare.paint.PaintView
     android:id="@+id/paintview"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent"> 
        </com.gurudattdahare.paint.PaintView>

Step 4 (optional): implement OnEventListener

if you want to do some extra things when buttons are clicked then you need to implement OnEventListener.

mPaintView.setEvantListenar(new OnEventsListener() {
         @Override
         public void OnRedClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"red is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnBlueClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"blue is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnYellowClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"yellow is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnGreenClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"green is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnBlackClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"black is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnBrownClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"brown is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnEraserClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"eraser is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnClearClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"clear screen is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnBrushSizeClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"brush size button is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }

         @Override
         public void OnUndoClicked() {
             Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"undo button is clicked.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
         }