hasOverlappingRendering 一个性能优化的方法

android的View类里有一个可以继承的方法hasOverlappingRendering()。

    /**
     * Returns whether this View has content which overlaps.
     *
     * <p>This function, intended to be overridden by specific View types, is an optimization when
     * alpha is set on a view. If rendering overlaps in a view with alpha < 1, that view is drawn to
     * an offscreen buffer and then composited into place, which can be expensive. If the view has
     * no overlapping rendering, the view can draw each primitive with the appropriate alpha value
     * directly. An example of overlapping rendering is a TextView with a background image, such as
     * a Button. An example of non-overlapping rendering is a TextView with no background, or an
     * ImageView with only the foreground image. The default implementation returns true; subclasses
     * should override if they have cases which can be optimized.</p>
     *
     * <p>The current implementation of the saveLayer and saveLayerAlpha methods in {@link Canvas}
     * necessitates that a View return true if it uses the methods internally without passing the
     * {@link Canvas#CLIP_TO_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG}.</p>
     *
     * <p><strong>Note:</strong> The return value of this method is ignored if {@link
     * #forceHasOverlappingRendering(boolean)} has been called on this view.</p>
     *
     * @return true if the content in this view might overlap, false otherwise.
     */
    @ViewDebug.ExportedProperty(category = "drawing")
    public boolean hasOverlappingRendering() {
        return true;
    }

该方法用来标记当前view是否存在过度绘制，存在返回ture，不存在返回false，默认返回为true。

知道了这些就可以用该方法了，在保证该View不存在过度绘制的情况下，继承该方法，直接返回false即可。

但是对于一个有追求的开发者，更应该研究明白继承这个方法来性能优化的原理，只知其然不知其所以然是提高不了自己的水平的。下面就来说说这个方法具体是怎么用来性能优化的。

在android的View里有透明度的属性，当设置透明度setAlpha的时候，android里默认会把当前view绘制到offscreen buffer中，然后再显示出来。 这个offscreen buffer 可以理解为一个临时缓冲区，把当前View放进来并做透明度的转化，然后在显示到屏幕上。这个过程是消耗资源的，所以应该尽量避免这个过程。

避免这个过程可以分很多种情况，常见的比如没有背景的TextView，就可以直接设置文字颜色，而不是设置整体alpha；ImageView设置图片透明度setImageAlpha，自定义View设置绘制时的paint的透明度。

而当继承了hasOverlappingRendering()方法返回false后，android会自动进行合理的优化，避免使用offscreen buffer。

需要注意的是，当调用forceHasOverlappingRendering（boolean b）后这个方法就会被忽略。