I have a lot of intensive trigonometry operations to draw my Canvas. I'm trying to figure out if it's necessary to move such intensive work outside of the draw call, especially since the draw call runs alot during my fade animations. The problem with moving my shape and position calculations outside of the canvas is that I'm unable to get the size of the canvas before the draw call, and the size is necessary for me to know how to draw the shapes. I've been somewhat able to solve that problem by doing a

var outerRadius by remember {
    mutableStateOf(0f)
}

before the code that calculates the shapes, and then setting

outerRadius = min(size.width, size.height) / 2

at the start of the draw call. This works in app but the previews in Android will show the canvas as empty, which is annoying. The shape calculation happens before the canvas like this

val shapes by remember(indicatorCount, gapAng, outerRadius) {
  // trigonometry etc
}

You can use drawWithCache to do this.

Thanks a lot, that's very helpful. I will look into using drawWithCache then.