iPhone drawing

I'm not sure whether I just got bad at googling things but apparently, when I first researched bits and pieces about rendering stuff on iPhone, I did not find the way of rendering I was so desperately looking for:

Instead of diving into OpenGL ES right from the start, I was looking for a rendering mechanism similar to what J2ME offers: subclassing Canvas, overriding the paint() method and adding all of your drawing calls to that method.

For iPhone I expected to find a similar way of rendering and, sure enough, came across Quartz as iPhone's 2D rendering library of choice. What I did not find, however, was the part where I subclass and add the statements to a particular function in my code. Now, reading the first few lines of Dave Mark's and Jeff LaMarche's chapter on Quartz and OpenGL ES (from their book Beginning iPhone 3 Development), I finally found the missing piece:

1. Subclass UIView
2. Override drawRect:
3. Add Quartz-calls

If you're wondering where you can get a handle to the Graphics context (that you'll get automatically as an argument to the method in J2ME), you use UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() to get a handle to it.

Maybe this post looks dead-simple, I just hope some people will find it in their quest to discover the information I was looking for myself :-)