Android SurfaceHolder.unlockCanvasAndPost() does not cause redraw?

So it turns out that when using SurfaceView you draw to a Surface that is underneath a Window. I was setting the background color of the View in xml; it turns out that sets the background color of the Window, not the Surface. In effect, I made the Window opaque so that you couldn't see the Surface underneath.

That's not how SurfaceView works. Calling unlockCanvasAndPost() does not invoke onDraw(), that's the whole point of using a SurfaceView. A SurfaceView's surface lives in a different window.

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