I wrote the same program two ways.

One using a Surfaceview, and the other using a custom view. According to the android SDK development guide, using a surface view is better because you can spawn a separate thread to handle graphics. Th SDK development guide claims that using a custom view with invalidate calls is only good for slower animations, less intense graphics.

However, in my simple app, I can clearly see that using a custom view with calls to invalidate seems to render faster.

What do you guys know/think about this?