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Case Study

Canvas Studio

Release certificada 2.5.0 for Android tablets: a tiled raster engine, Brush Studio 4.0, v7 documents, and advanced S Pen input.

A serious canvas designed for touch.

Create

Brush Studio 4.0 combines pressure curves, speed, tilt, Dual Brush, and wet-media controls.

Learn

An interactive academy guides seven stages of brush creation and tuning.

Keep

Local gallery, incremental autosave, document format v7, and PNG, flattened PSD, or OpenRaster export.

Mobile drawing apps often choose between power and comfort.

Large canvases, stylus input, and layers demand memory and precision, while the interface must stay fast and legible on a tablet.

Build the engine and experience around local documents.

Canvas Studio combines Jetpack Compose with a custom DrawingView and a sparse 512×512 tiled raster surface, using LRU caching and lazy loading.

Canvas performance is also a design decision.

Engine

Tiled raster

Only the required regions are loaded and rendered for documents up to 64 million pixels.

Input

Stylus as a first-class input

Pressure, tilt, flow, spacing, taper, and stabilization shape every stroke.

Privacy

Local by default

No account, backend, analytics, or sync: projects stay on the device.

Format

Open documents

The versioned local format and OpenRaster export make work easier to preserve and move.

Tablet-first does not mean shrinking a desktop experience.

The opportunity is adapting hierarchy, gestures, and control density without sacrificing composition or precision.

Release certificada 2.5.0, phase 9.1.

Brush Studio 4.0, an interactive tutorial, document format v7, portrait/landscape layouts, and read compatibility with v2–v6 projects, exclusively for tablets at least 600dp wide.