View的绘制流程，从Activity的启动说起

Activity是通过ActivityThead启动的，首先会走handleLaunchActivity方法，之后会走 performLaunchActivity()方法

private void handleLaunchActivity(ActivityClientRecord r, Intent customIntent) {
  ···
        Activity a = performLaunchActivity(r, customIntent); 
  ···
    }

performLaunchActivity()方法中通过反射创建了Activity的实例，然后会调用其生命周期中的 attach方法,代码如下所示：

performLaunchActivity(){
...
java.lang.ClassLoader cl = r.packageInfo.getClassLoader();
            activity = mInstrumentation.newActivity(
                    cl, component.getClassName(), r.intent);
            ···
            if (activity != null) {
                Context appContext = createBaseContextForActivity(r, activity);
                CharSequence title = r.activityInfo.loadLabel(appContext.getPackageManager());
                Configuration config = new Configuration(mCompatConfiguration);
                if (DEBUG_CONFIGURATION) Slog.v(TAG, "Launching activity "
                        + r.activityInfo.name + " with config " + config);
            ...
                activity.attach(appContext, this, getInstrumentation(), r.token,
                        r.ident, app, r.intent, r.activityInfo, title, r.parent,
                        r.embeddedID, r.lastNonConfigurationInstances, config,
                        r.referrer, r.voiceInteractor);
                         ···
}

attach方法中,创建了Window的实例PhoneWindow,代码如下：

        ...
        attachBaseContext(context);

        mFragments.attachHost(null /*parent*/);

        mWindow = new PhoneWindow(this, window);
        mWindow.setWindowControllerCallback(this);
        mWindow.setCallback(this);

并且由上面的attach可见，在ActivityThread里会执行Activity的整个生命周期。

之后理所当然地执行了Activity的OnCreate()方法,代码如下：

... 
 if (r.isPersistable()) {
                    mInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(activity, r.state, r.persistentState);
                } else {
                    mInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(activity, r.state);
                }
...

回调onCreate方法，也意味着调用了一种重要的方法：setContentView()。

setContentView()

进入Activity的setContentView()方法，代码如下：

 public void setContentView(@LayoutRes int layoutResID) {
        getWindow().setContentView(layoutResID);
        initWindowDecorActionBar();
    }

这里getWindow()返回的Window实例就是我们在上述attach方法中创建的PhoneWindow。

PhoneWindow中的setContentView()方法中主要做了两件事：

1.在installDecor()方法中，如果没有DecorView,那么就创建它，如果没有mContentView，那么就创建它，代码如下：

private void installDecor() {
        mForceDecorInstall = false;
        if (mDecor == null) {
            mDecor = generateDecor(-1);  //创建DecorView
            mDecor.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS);
            mDecor.setIsRootNamespace(true);
            if (!mInvalidatePanelMenuPosted && mInvalidatePanelMenuFeatures != 0) {
                mDecor.postOnAnimation(mInvalidatePanelMenuRunnable);
            }
        } else {
            mDecor.setWindow(this);
        }
        if (mContentParent == null) {
            mContentParent = generateLayout(mDecor); //创建mContentView
            // Set up decor part of UI to ignore fitsSystemWindows if appropriate.
            mDecor.makeOptionalFitsSystemWindows();

            final DecorContentParent decorContentParent = (DecorContentParent) mDecor.findViewById(
                    R.id.decor_content_parent);
       ...

2.将Activity的布局添加到DecorView的mContentParent中，代码如下：

  if (mContentParent == null) {
            installDecor();
        } else if (!hasFeature(FEATURE_CONTENT_TRANSITIONS)) {
            mContentParent.removeAllViews();
        }

        if (hasFeature(FEATURE_CONTENT_TRANSITIONS)) {
            final Scene newScene = Scene.getSceneForLayout(mContentParent, layoutResID,
                    getContext());
            transitionTo(newScene);
        } else {
            mLayoutInflater.inflate(layoutResID, mContentParent);  //添加布局至mContentParent
        }

执行完Activity的onCreate()方法后，会将DecorView添加到Window中，同时会创建ViewRootImpl对象，并将ViewRootImpl对象和DecorView建立关联，最后开始View的绘制流程，具体流程如下：

在handleResumeActivity()方法中将decorview添加到window，代码如下：

 if (r.window == null && !a.mFinished && willBeVisible) {
                r.window = r.activity.getWindow();
                View decor = r.window.getDecorView(); //获取decorview
                decor.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
                ...
                if (a.mVisibleFromClient) {
                    if (!a.mWindowAdded) {
                        a.mWindowAdded = true;
                        wm.addView(decor, l);  //添加到window
                    } else {
                        // The activity will get a callback for this {@link LayoutParams} change
                        // earlier. However, at that time the decor will not be set (this is set
                        // in this method), so no action will be taken. This call ensures the
                        // callback occurs with the decor set.
                        a.onWindowAttributesChanged(l);
                    }
                }

这里的wm.addView()走的是 WindowManagerImpl中的addView方法，即：

 @Override
    public void addView(@NonNull View view, @NonNull ViewGroup.LayoutParams params) {
        applyDefaultToken(params);
        mGlobal.addView(view, params, mContext.getDisplay(), mParentWindow);
    }

在WindowManagerGlobal中的addView()方法，如下：

...    
root = new ViewRootImpl(view.getContext(), display);  //创建ViewRootImpl

            view.setLayoutParams(wparams);

            mViews.add(view);
            mRoots.add(root);
            mParams.add(wparams);  

            // do this last because it fires off messages to start doing things
            try {
                root.setView(view, wparams, panelParentView);  //ViewRootImpl与Decorview建立联系
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                // BadTokenException or InvalidDisplayException, clean up.
                if (index >= 0) {
                    removeViewLocked(index, true);
                }
                throw e;
            }
        }

最后在ViewRootImpl的setView()方法中执行requestLayout()方法，最终进入View的绘制流程。

流程图如下：