I want to create a Checkers Game. But having a hard time thinking what are the best techniques to use.

Should I use a canvas for the checkered board? then move the pawns by their coordinates?
or should I just use a grid of buttons, and just tap on each button to move?

or can anyone give me any algorithms, steps, examples, or anything to help me build this project? Please

Thank you so much guys.

I'm going to be working on that in the future. On my project http://www.sf.net/p/javagg I have a module gsc which has a demo checker board, but this is using Swing. I have not converted it to android yet. I am looking now at how I will convert some objects to android such as TileMap and ImageStrip, both of which my checkers board uses.