I have looked and looked and can't seem to find anything on rotating a bitmap. I see the method of drawBitmap()
which has a matrix component for things like that but with such an emphasis on "ease" and whatnot I feel there has to be something other than manually doing the matrix multiplication myself. Thanks for any input and insight.

if you don't want to use matrix you can still operate on Canvas and its rotate(deg) or rotate(deg, pivotX, pivotY) methods