I have seen commits in androidx-master-dev that adds translationX/Y and pivotX/Y to drawLayer, which is pretty exciting. Should we expect them in dev08 or dev09?

dev08 should have them

That is awesome @Leland Richardson [G], once they land, I will refactor my code to use them.

How is pivot different from rotation?

The default rotation you see pivots around the center which is probably width/2 and height/2. Having pivotX/Y allows you to specify origin(i. e points) on the XY plane around which the rotation should pivot upon.

oh, awesome!