Hello,

In the graphics section of the android developers guide here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/index.html

There is a section on creating a bit map. The line of code is this:

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Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(100, 100, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas c = new Canvas(b)

What on earth is Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888? The Android documentation mentions nothing of this.

ARGB means AlphaRedGreenBlue 8888 means 8 bits for Alpha 8 bits for Red etc etc

Oh, that makes sense.

I don't understand why the Android documentation doesn't have this explanation. Not like it's complicated.

It does.

http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... onfig.html

at the top under the Enums section.