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Android TransitionDrawable not fading

I have an ImageView and I am trying to fade from one image to the next using this code:
Drawable bgs[] = new Drawable[2];
public void redraw(int[][] grid) {
bgs[0] = bgs[1];
bgs[1] = new GameDrawable(grid, prefs.colors);
if (bgs[0] == null) {
gameField.setImageDrawable(bgs[1]);
} else {
TransitionDrawable crossfader = new TransitionDrawable(bgs);
crossfader.setCrossFadeEnabled(true);
gameField.setImageDrawable(crossfader);
crossfader.startTransition(500);
}
}
gameField is correctly referenced as an ImageView.
gameDrawable simply extends Drawable and draws the grid.
On each move and action the new GameDrawable is being rendered correctly but there is no fading whatsoever. The new image is simply displayed instantaneously. I have tried lengthening the transition time and swapping the order of the drawables with no effect.
Any help on is appreciated.
Update: I have now set my transition to something ridiculously long like 500000. The first drawable shows for a few seconds and then suddenly the second drawable appears. So still no transition.
Update 2:
I think my Drawable might be implemented incorrectly, so I have attached the code.
public class GameDrawable extends Drawable {
private Paint paint = new Paint();
private float blockWidth = 1;
private int[][] myGrid;
private int myColor;
private List<Point> myPoints;
public GameDrawable(int[][] grid) {
super();
this.myGrid = grid;
this.myColor = colors[yourColor];
paint.setStrokeWidth(1);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
paint.setAlpha(0);
this.myPoints = yourPoints;
}
#Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
float height = getBounds().height();
float width = getBounds().width();
blockWidth = width / myGrid.length;
if (height / myGrid.length < blockWidth) {
blockWidth = height / myGrid.length;
}
for (int x = 0; x < myGrid.length; x++) {
for (int y = 0; y < myGrid[x].length; y++) {
paint.setColor(colors[myGrid[x][y]]);
canvas.drawRect(x * blockWidth, y * blockWidth, (x+1)*blockWidth, (y+1)*blockWidth, paint);
}
}
}
#Override
public void setAlpha(int alpha) {
paint.setAlpha(alpha);
invalidateSelf();
}
#Override
public void setColorFilter(ColorFilter cf) {
paint.setColorFilter(cf);
invalidateSelf();
}
#Override
public int getOpacity() {
return PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT;
}
}

Looking at your code, I see a problem at the line
bgs[0] = bgs[1];
bgs[1] has not yet been defined before this line and so bgs[0] is null for the first method call. Because of this, (bgs[0] == null) is true, and so the later defined bgs[1] is directly set to the gameField ImageView.
Use corrected code below.
Drawable bgs[] = new Drawable[2];
Drawable firstDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.transparent);
public void redraw(int[][] grid) {
bgs[0] = firstDrawable;
bgs[1] = new GameDrawable(grid, prefs.colors);
firstDrawable = bgs[1];
TransitionDrawable crossfader = new TransitionDrawable(bgs);
crossfader.setCrossFadeEnabled(true);
gameField.setImageDrawable(crossfader);
crossfader.startTransition(500);
}
Note that TransitionDrawable does not work properly when the Drawable sizes are different. So you may need to resize firstDrawable beforehand.
EXTRA: I would avoid setCrossFadeEnabled(true) since the whole TransitionDrawable becomes translucent during the transition, revealing the background. Sometimes, this creates a "blinking" effect and destroys the smoothness of the transition.
EDIT: Looking at your custom Drawable implementation, I think the problem lies in the line
canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
in the draw() method.
I looked at TransitionDrawable.java source and found that setAlpha is called on the drawables to get the cross fade effect. However, your canvas has a solid white color and setAlpha() only affects the paint. Hope this is your answer.
EDIT 2: The actual problem, as pointed out by Michael, was that TransitionDrawable's setAlpha() calls on the Drawables were rendered ineffective due to paint.setColor() in the GameDrawable's draw() method overriding the paint's alpha value set by the TransitionDrawable.

Android drawing a custom view onDraw(). only draw a half of the image

Im extending the View class in order to have a "drawable" view witch contains the desired background.
The problem is when this class works fine in other activity (same app).
Here is the class that extends View:
public class BackgroundMap extends View {
private String strmap;
private int totalWidth;
public BackgroundMap(Context context, String map, int w, int h) {
super(context);
super.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(w, h));
totalWidth = w;
strmap = map;
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
Resources res = getResources();
int eachBoxSize = totalWidth/10;
float left = 0;
float top = 0;
Paint paint = new Paint();
for(char c : strmap.toCharArray()){
Bitmap bm = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, Terrain.getResource(c)), eachBoxSize, eachBoxSize, false);
canvas.drawBitmap(bm, left, top, paint);
if(left == totalWidth - eachBoxSize){
left = 0;
top += eachBoxSize;
}else{
left += eachBoxSize;
}
}
}
}
This view works like this: somelayout.addView(new BackgroundMap(arg..));
the String map argument means an array of terrains (char) ids that point to several little png images.
and this is how i use it in my Activity:
ly_rbtn_image = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.ly_rbtn_image);
ly_rbtn_image.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
imagewidth = ly_rbtn_image.getWidth();
ly_rbtn_image.addView(new BackgroundMap(getApplicationContext(), str, imagewidth, imagewidth));
}
});
i check with logcat the width of parent layout and it has 225px. As you can see the image below only build the first row of bitmaps... but this IS NOT a loop problem
I check inside the custom view loop at onDraw method if there was a problem here but it iterate the whole string (100 chars, 10x10 bitmaps)
hope u can help me :S
http://deviantsart.com/1afcam8.png

solved. please delete me.
the bitmaps were pushed at right till the end of the loop. So in fact, i didnt know why this happened.
UNTIL I CHECKED THE BOUNDS OF THE RESULT VIEW IN LOGCAT x))) the view had 2000 pixels width and 20 height... there we go:
When i get the total width of the device, casually was a number divisible by 10 (10x10 grid) so in fact was lucky not having this problem before (building the same map in other view).
Then, the problem was the need to print the same map (or grid) in an other view, not big as the device width, so the total width (parent width) was not divisible by the number of columns of the grid (im ashamed x)).

Android: Making Bitmaps Disappear When Touched

As is, 100 pink circles (same bitmap) appear scattered randomly over the phone screen (as is supposed to). When I tap one of the circles, that circle should disappear (change to the background color). I think I have a fundamental misunderstanding of Android and View in general.I think I have a couple obvious errors (that are not so obvious to me, but I've been staring at it so long that I figured I needed some help). Currently, the screen shows the random circles but nothing more. Touching the screen does nothing. Any better ideas to make the circles disappear? It recently reorganized all the bitmaps when you touched it, but I did something recently, and it stopped. The bitmap is 30px by 30px.
public class DrawV extends View {
private Bitmap bit_dot;
private int width;
private int height;
public int[] width_array = new int[100];
public int[] height_array = new int[100];
private View dotV = (View)findViewById(R.id.bigdocpic);//bitmap
Random rand = new Random();
public DrawV(Context context) {
super(context);
bit_dot = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.dot_catch);
DisplayMetrics metrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
width = metrics.widthPixels;
height = metrics.heightPixels;
}
#Override
//draws 100 randomly placed similar bitmaps
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
int height_dimension;
int width_dimension;
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++){
height_dimension = rand.nextInt(height) + 1;
width_dimension = rand.nextInt(width) + 1;
canvas.drawBitmap(bit_dot, width_dimension, height_dimension, null);
width_array[i] = width_dimension;//
height_array[i] = height_dimension;//
}
}
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event){
Paint p = new Paint();
p.setColor(Color.WHITE);
Path path = new Path();
Canvas c = new Canvas();
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++){
if ((event.getX() == width_array[i]) && (event.getY() == height_array[i]))
c.drawCircle(width_array[i], height_array[i], 15, p);
}
invalidate();
return false;//false or true?
}
//set visibility of bitmap to invisible
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
dotV.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
invalidate();
return false;//false or true? not understanding
}}
Help?

Your onTouchEvent isn't really doing anything important as-is, and you don't have the concept of a circle object.
onDraw should really be drawing these circles from an array/list created earlier - say a List<MyCircles> or MyCircles[]. On touch, you could iterate through all of your circles until you find one that is closest, remove that circle from the array or list, then invalidate.
The reason nothing is happening at all is even though you're drawing those circles again in onTouchEvent, you're redrawing everything yet again in onDraw (invalidate() calls draw/onDraw).
Ideally, create your list of circles in your initializer, draw them in onDraw, and update them in onTouch (That is, delete). There may be a simpler way to do this but this is, at the very least, a more proper approach.

Weird OutOfMemoryError with android bitmaps: Why does showing and then hiding the containing View avoid it?

I was a frequent guest at stackoverflow until I ran into a problem that I really couldn't find anything existing about. So here is my first question:
I am building a camera app in which the user can take several pictures before proceeding to the next step. I want to give the user the possibility to review and delete pictures while stying in the camera stage, so I have written a custom View to show Thumbnails of the already captured images with a delete button. These "Thumbviews" are contained in a LinearLayout that is located on top of the camerapreview-SurfaceView and has a default visibility of "GONE". The user can toggle the visibility with a button.
It all works fine, but I have one problem:
When I take more than about 10 pictures, I get an OutOfMemoryError. The thumbnails are really small and don't take a lot of memory and also I recycle the original Bitmaps and perform a System.gc() after creating the thumbs.
The weird thing is, when I press the button that sets the visibility of the containing LinearLayout to "VISIBLE" and again to "GONE", apparently all the memory gets freed and I can take many more pictures than 10.
I've tried switching the visibility in code but that doesn't work, and also destroying the drawing cache.
There has to be another way to free that memory besides pushing my visibility button 2 times ;-)
Here's the code for the ThumbView:
public class ThumbView extends View {
private Bitmap mBitmap;
private Bitmap mScaledBitmap;
private int mWidth, mHeight, mPosX, mPosY;
static private Bitmap mDeleteBitmap;
private File mPreviewFile;
private File mFinalFile;
private Orientation mOrientation;
private boolean mRed;
public ThumbView(Context context, Bitmap bitmap, File previewFile, File finalFile, Orientation orientation) {
super(context);
mBitmap = bitmap;
mPreviewFile = previewFile;
mFinalFile = finalFile;
mOrientation = orientation;
if(mDeleteBitmap != null)
return;
mDeleteBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.deletebutton);
}
public void deleteFile()
{
if(mPreviewFile != null && mPreviewFile.exists())
{
mPreviewFile.delete();
}
if(mFinalFile != null && mFinalFile.exists())
{
mFinalFile.delete();
}
}
#Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
mWidth = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
setMeasuredDimension(mWidth, mWidth);
if(mBitmap == null)
return;
mHeight = mWidth;
float bitmapRatio = mBitmap.getWidth() / (float) mBitmap.getHeight();
if(bitmapRatio > 1)
{
mScaledBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(mBitmap, mWidth,
(int)(mWidth/bitmapRatio), true);
mPosY = (mWidth-mScaledBitmap.getHeight())/2;
}
else
{
mScaledBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(mBitmap, (int)(mHeight*bitmapRatio),
mHeight, true);
mPosX = (mHeight-mScaledBitmap.getWidth())/2;
}
Matrix mtx = new Matrix();
mtx.postRotate(-90);
Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(mScaledBitmap, 0, 0, mScaledBitmap.getWidth(), mScaledBitmap.getHeight(), mtx, true);
mScaledBitmap = b;
b = null;
mBitmap.recycle();
mBitmap = null;
System.gc();
}
public boolean deleteButtonPressed(float x, float y)
{
Rect r = new Rect(mPosY, mPosX, mPosY+mDeleteBitmap.getWidth(),
mPosX+mDeleteBitmap.getHeight());
if(r.contains((int)x, (int)y))
{
return true;
}
return false;
}
public void setRed(boolean red)
{
mRed = red;
invalidate();
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
canvas.drawBitmap(mScaledBitmap, mPosY, mPosX, new Paint());
canvas.drawBitmap(mDeleteBitmap, mPosY, mPosX, new Paint());
if(mRed)
canvas.drawColor(0x55FF0000);
}
}

The "why does it not break" answer's easy. When the visibility of a child view (or container) is set to GONE, the parent layout will (generally) skip it and not even bother rendering it. It's not "hidden", it's not there at all.
If your thumbnails are really thumbnails you shouldn't be running out of memory, however, I think you're not downsampling them (I could be wrong). How are you showing them? You should share that piece of code. (New Photo -> Thumbnail Image -> Image View)

I am so stupid. Obviously my onMeasure() won't be called while the View stays GONE and therefore the original bitmap stays in memory. I changed visibility to INVISIBLE and everything works fine now.

How to make an Android app that prints touched points and draw them?

I want to make a small app. You will touch the screen and draw something and it will list points you pass and draw small green 3x3 rectangles for each fifth point. I use onTouchEvent for listing points using TextView and send it to setContentView. However, I have problem in drawing. I checked examples for drawing (onDraw) but I am not able to get it working for both printing point plus drawing green dots. Any help would be great, thanks.

Here you are, a quick sample of drawing on SurfaceView.
public class FunPanel extends SurfaceView {
class Point {
int X;
int Y;
public Point() {
X = Y = -1;
}
}
private ArrayList<Point> mPoints = new ArrayList<Point>();
private Point mCurPoint = new Point();
private Bitmap mBitmap = ....// your desired image
#Override
public void doDraw(Canvas canvas) {
if( !(mPoints.size() % 5) ) {
canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, mCurPoint.X, mCurPoint.Y, null);
}
}
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
mCurPoint.X = (int) event.getX() - mBitmap.getWidth() / 2;
mCurPoint.Y = (int) event.getY() - mBitmap.getHeight() / 2;
mPoints.add(mCurPoint);
return super.onTouchEvent(event);
}
}

It's not entirely clear what you're trying to do, but have a look at this It should get you started in the right direction. Basically extend a View and override the onDraw(Canvas) to draw the Rectangles and override the onTouchEvent(MotionEvent) to grab the touch points from the screen.