Load bitmap or draw graphic? Performance Question

Question

Ok, I am going to be drawing a lot of "insects" on the screen. My question is, if I am drawing a spider for example, would it be faster to load a bitmap, matrix it to the correct angle, and draw it on screen (again and again), or draw an ant using the canvas.drawLine, drawCircle, etc? For a direct comparison:

Bitmap: 500 bytes w/ transparency

Drawn: 8 drawLines, 2 drawCircles

I already have a lot going on, so performance here is very important.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It is much faster to draw a bitmap. What really matters is how many pixels you are going to draw (i.e. the overdraw, which will impact the maximum fillrate.) Using bitmaps also allows you to create richer graphics without performance penalties.