How to Draw something with your finger in an Android App.... And save it to the web

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Hi I am a PHP developer I want to do a simple thing - I want to draw something drawn on a blank page on an Android Phone (with a finger with a largeish "emulated pen nib") and store the bitmap as a jpeg on a server by http post.

Here is what I have so far but this is taken from a tutorial that is involved with writing sprites for a game.. And I cant' adapt it

package com.my.example;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.SurfaceHolder;
import android.view.SurfaceView;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;

public class DrawCapture extends Activity implements OnTouchListener{

    OurView v;
    Bitmap ball;
    float x,y;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.draw_capture);
        v = new OurView(this);
        v.setOnTouchListener(this);
        ball = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.blueball);
        x = y = 0;
        setContentView(v);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause(){
        super.onPause();
        v.pause();
    }

    protected void onResume(){
        super.onResume();
        v.resume();
    }

    public class OurView extends SurfaceView implements Runnable{
        Thread t = null;
        SurfaceHolder holder;
        boolean isItOK = false;

        public OurView(Context context) {
            super(context);
            holder = getHolder();
        }

        public void run() {
            while (isItOK == true){

                try {
                    Thread.sleep(50);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

                //perform canvas drawing
                if (!holder.getSurface().isValid()){
                    continue;
                }
                Canvas c = holder.lockCanvas();
                onDraw(c);
                holder.unlockCanvasAndPost(c);
            }       
        }

        public void onDraw(Canvas c){
            c.drawARGB(255, 210, 210, 210);
            c.drawBitmap(ball, x - (ball.getWidth()/2), y - (ball.getHeight()/2), null);
        }

        public void pause(){
            isItOK = false;
            while(true){
                try{
                    t.join();
                } catch(InterruptedException e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                break;
            }
            t = null;
        }

        public void resume(){
            isItOK = true;
            t = new Thread(this);
            t.start();
        }
    }

    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent me){

        switch (me.getAction()){
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN : 
                x = me.getX();
                y = me.getY();              
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP : 
                x = me.getX();
                y = me.getY();              
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE : 
                x = me.getX();
                y = me.getY();              
                break;
        }
        return true;
    }
}

and here is the XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SurfaceView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >


</SurfaceView>

Can someone please help me? I feel I am close - I use the blueball as a pen nib I just want to "save" this and possibly I'll need to have a button (or menu) on the XML page to do this ? I know it's a bit of a beg but there are a lot of people online asking how to draw with your finger and save something to the "cloud" if people could respond with examples of the code (not references) I promise I will compile this into a proper tutorial piece of code for the eventual benefit of all. Including the PHP server side code that I already am really happy with.