Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to HTML5 Canvas element rendering methods implemented on an Android system based on GPU hardware. The methods may include after a rendering operation instruction for a Canvas element in an HTML5 web page is detected and an initialization operation is completed, converting an invoking instruction for a 2D Canvas drawing API into an invoking instruction for an OpenGL ES API through a Skia GPU function library; setting EGL Context created during the initialization operation as a current context of a thread where a rendering operation is located; rendering the Canvas element in an off-screen local window created during the initialization operation by using the GPU; and copying the rendered Canvas element to a current active window of a device from the off-screen local window by using a mapping operation function of the GPU. The methods, by making use of a local window rendering mechanism provided by an Android operating system and the OpenGL ES API, allow the Canvas element to be drawn and mixed by using the GPU, thereby improving the performance of Canvas rendering by using GPU hardware acceleration.