How to achieve feathering effect in Android? - android

I am trying to create an Oval Bitmap and I need to get a feather effect around the margins,
Does anyone have any idea How I can achieve this ?
Thanks.

You could consider the 'feather effect' as a gradial gradient, with the alpha fading from 100% to 0%.
Android offers the RadialGradient class for this purpose. You'll want to use the constructor where you can specify the control points for the radient, as you'll want the fading to start near the edge, not in the middle.
The one problem with Android's RadialGradient class is that it only supports perfect circles, not for ovals. To compensate for this, we'll just draw a perfect circle and scale afterwards.
Example code:
private Bitmap makeFeatheredOval(int width, int height) {
// Determine largest dimension, use for rectangle.
int size = Math.max( width, height);
RadialGradient gradient = new RadialGradient(size / 2, size / 2, size / 2,
new int[] {0xFFFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x00FFFFFF},
new float[] {0.0f, 0.8f, 1.0f},
android.graphics.Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setShader(gradient);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(size, size, Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
canvas.drawCircle(size / 2, size / 2, size / 2, paint);
// Scale the bitmap, creating an oval
bitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, width, height, true);
return bitmap;
}
Example image (it's the oval "moon" in the upper left corner):
Bonus points for everyone who recognizes that backdrop image.

Related

Drawing a rounded hollow thumb over arc

I want to create a rounded graph that will display a range of values from my app. The values can be classified to 3 categories: low, mid, high - that are represented by 3 colors: blue, green and red (respectively).
Above this range, I want to show the actually measured values - in a form of a "thumb" over the relevant range part:
The location of the white thumb over the range arc may change, according to the measured values.
Currently, I'm able to draw the 3-colored range by drawing 3 arcs over the same center, inside the view's onDraw method:
width = (float) getWidth();
height = (float) getHeight();
float radius;
if (width > height) {
radius = height / 3;
} else {
radius = width / 3;
}
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setStrokeWidth(arcLineWidth);
paint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
center_x = width / 2;
center_y = height / 1.6f;
left = center_x - radius;
float top = center_y - radius;
right = center_x + radius;
float bottom = center_y + radius;
oval.set(left, top, right, bottom);
//blue arc
paint.setColor(colorLow);
canvas.drawArc(oval, 135, 55, false, paint);
//red arc
paint.setColor(colorHigh);
canvas.drawArc(oval, 350, 55, false, paint);
//green arc
paint.setColor(colorNormal);
canvas.drawArc(oval, 190, 160, false, paint);
And this is the result arc:
My question is, how do I:
Create a smooth gradient between those 3 colors (I tried using
SweepGradient but it didn't give me the correct result).
Create the overlay white thumb as shown in the picture, so that I'll be able to control where to display it.
Animate this white thumb over my range arc.
Note: the 3-colored range is static - so another solution can be to just take the drawable and paint the white thumb over it (and animate it), so I'm open to hear such a solution as well :)
I would use masks for your first two problems.
1. Create a smooth gradient
The very first step would be drawing two rectangles with a linear gradient. The first
rectangle contains the colors blue and green while the second rectangle contains green
and red as seen in the following picture. I marked the line where both rectangles touch each other
black to clarify that they are infact two different rectangles.
This can be achieved using the following code (excerpt):
// Both color gradients
private Shader shader1 = new LinearGradient(0, 400, 0, 500, Color.rgb(59, 242, 174), Color.rgb(101, 172, 242), Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
private Shader shader2 = new LinearGradient(0, 400, 0, 500, Color.rgb(59, 242, 174), Color.rgb(255, 31, 101), Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
private Paint paint = new Paint();
// ...
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
float width = 800;
float height = 800;
float radius = width / 3;
// Arc Image
Bitmap.Config conf = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888; // See other config types
Bitmap mImage = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf); // This creates a mutable bitmap
Canvas imageCanvas = new Canvas(mImage);
// Draw both rectangles
paint.setShader(shader1);
imageCanvas.drawRect(0, 0, 400, 800, paint);
paint.setShader(shader2);
imageCanvas.drawRect(400, 0, 800, 800, paint);
// /Arc Image
// Draw the rectangle image
canvas.save();
canvas.drawBitmap(mImage, 0, 0, null);
canvas.restore();
}
As your goal is having a colored arc with rounded caps, we next need to define the area of
both rectangles that should be visible to the user. This means that most of both rectangles
will be masked away and thus not visible. Instead the only thing to remain is the arc area.
The result should look like this:
In order to achieve the needed behavior we define a mask that only reveals the arc area within
the rectangles. For this we make heavy use of the setXfermode method of Paint. As argument
we use different instances of a PorterDuffXfermode.
private Paint maskPaint;
private Paint imagePaint;
// ...
// To be called within all constructors
private void init() {
// I encourage you to research what this does in detail for a better understanding
maskPaint = new Paint();
maskPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));
imagePaint = new Paint();
imagePaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_OVER));
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// #step1
// Mask
Bitmap mMask = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf);
Canvas maskCanvas = new Canvas(mMask);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setShader(null);
paint.setStrokeWidth(70);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
paint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
final RectF oval = new RectF();
center_x = 400;
center_y = 400;
oval.set(center_x - radius,
center_y - radius,
center_x + radius,
center_y + radius);
maskCanvas.drawArc(oval, 135, 270, false, paint);
// /Mask
canvas.save();
// This is new compared to step 1
canvas.drawBitmap(mMask, 0, 0, maskPaint);
canvas.drawBitmap(mImage, 0, 0, imagePaint); // Notice the imagePaint instead of null
canvas.restore();
}
2. Create the overlay white thumb
This solves your first problem. The second one can be achieved using masks again, though this
time we want to achieve something different. Before, we wanted to show only a specific area (the arc)
of the background image (being the two rectangles). This time we want to do the opposite:
We define a background image (the thumb) and mask away its inner content, so that only
the stroke seems to remain. Applied to the arc image the thumb overlays the colored arc with
a transparent content area.
So the first step would be drawing the thumb. We use an arc for this with the same radius as
the background arc but different angles, resulting in a much smaller arc. But becaus the
thumb should "surround" the background arc, its stroke width has to be bigger than the
background arc.
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// #step1
// #step2
// Thumb Image
mImage = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf);
imageCanvas = new Canvas(mImage);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setStrokeWidth(120);
final RectF oval2 = new RectF();
center_x = 400;
center_y = 400;
oval2.set(center_x - radius,
center_y - radius,
center_x + radius,
center_y + radius);
imageCanvas.drawArc(oval2, 270, 45, false, paint);
// /Thumb Image
canvas.save();
canvas.drawBitmap(RotateBitmap(mImage, 90f), 0, 0, null);
canvas.restore();
}
public static Bitmap RotateBitmap(Bitmap source, float angle)
{
Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.postRotate(angle);
return Bitmap.createBitmap(source, 0, 0, source.getWidth(), source.getHeight(), matrix, true);
}
The result of the code is shown below.
So now that we have a thumb that is overlaying the background arc, we need to define the mask
that removes the inner part of the thumb, so that the background arc becomes visible again.
To achieve this we basically use the same parameters as before to create another arc, but
this time the stroke width has to be identical to the width used for the background arc as
this marks the area we want to remove inside the thumb.
Using the following code, the resulting image is shown in picture 4.
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// #step1
// #step2
// Thumb Image
// ...
// /Thumb Image
// Thumb Mask
mMask = Bitmap.createBitmap(800, 800, conf);
maskCanvas = new Canvas(mMask);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setStrokeWidth(70);
paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR));
final RectF oval3 = new RectF();
center_x = 400;
center_y = 400;
oval3.set(center_x - radius,
center_y - radius,
center_x + radius,
center_y + radius);
maskCanvas.drawBitmap(mImage, 0, 0, null);
maskCanvas.drawArc(oval3, 270, 45, false, paint);
// /Thumb Mask
canvas.save();
canvas.drawBitmap(RotateBitmap(mMask, 90f), 0, 0, null); // Notice mImage changed to mMask
canvas.restore();
}
3. Animate the white thumb
The last part of your question would be animating the movement of the arc. I have no solid
solution for this, but maybe can guide you in a useful direction. I would try the following:
First define the thumb as a ImageView that is part of your whole arc graph. When changing
the selected values of your graph, you rotate the thumb image around the center of the background
arc. Because we want to animate the movement, just setting the rotation of the thumb image would
not be adequate. Instead we use a RotateAnimation kind of like so:
final RotateAnimation animRotate = new RotateAnimation(0.0f, -90.0f, // You have to replace these values with your calculated angles
RotateAnimation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, // This may be a tricky part. You probably have to change this to RELATIVE_TO_PARENT
0.5f, // x pivot
RotateAnimation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF,
0.5f); // y pivot
animRotate.setDuration(1500);
animRotate.setFillAfter(true);
animSet.addAnimation(animRotate);
thumbView.startAnimation(animSet);
This is far from final I guess, but it very well may aid you in your search for the needed
solution. It is very important that your pivot values have to refer to the center of your
background arc as this is the point your thumb image should rotate around.
I have tested my (full) code with API Level 16 and 22, 23, so I hope that this answer at least
gives you new ideas on how to solve your problems.
Please note that allocation operations within the onDraw method are a bad idea and should
be avoided. For simplicity I failed to follow this advise. Also the code is to be used as
a guide in the right direction and not to be simply copy & pasted, because it makes heavy
use of magic numbers and generally does not follow good coding standards.
I would change a bit of the way you draw your view, by looking on the original design, instead of drawing 3 caps I would draw just 1 line, that way the SweepGradient will work.
This migth be a bit tricky, you have 2 options:
create a Path with 4 arcs
draw 2 arcs- one is the big white (filled with white so you still want to use Paint.Style.STROKE) and another on top of that make it fill transparent, you can achieve it with PorterDuff xfermode, it probably take you couple of tries until you get that without clearing the green circle too.
I imagine you want to animate thumb position, so just use simple Animation that invalidate the view and draw the thumb view position accordingly.
Hopes this helps
Create a gradient than follow a path is not so simple.
So I can suggest you to use some libraries than already did it.
Include the library:
dependencies {
...
compile 'com.github.paroca72:sc-gauges:3.0.7'
}
Create the gauge in XML:
<com.sccomponents.gauges.library.ScArcGauge
android:id="#+id/gauge"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
Your code:
ScArcGauge gauge = this.findViewById(R.id.gauge);
gauge.setAngleSweep(270);
gauge.setAngleStart(135);
gauge.setHighValue(90);
int lineWidth = 50;
ScCopier baseLine = gauge.getBase();
baseLine.setWidths(lineWidth);
baseLine.setColors(Color.parseColor("#dddddd"));
baseLine.getPainter().setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
ScCopier progressLine = gauge.getProgress();
progressLine.setWidths(lineWidth);
progressLine.setColors(
Color.parseColor("#65AAF2"),
Color.parseColor("#3EF2AD"),
Color.parseColor("#FF2465")
);
progressLine.getPainter().setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
Your result:
You can find something more complex on this site:
ScComponents

How to create emboss around a Bitmap?

The popular game Words with Friends draws letter tiles at the game board as a single entity -
You can see a yellow linear gradient applied to all letter tiles in the following screenshot and also an emboss effect on the edge:
In my word game I would like to have similar effects:
So I create a game board sized mBitmap, then draw all tiles into it and finally draw the bitmap into my custom view -
Setup:
setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
// create yellow linear gradient
mGradStart = new Point(3 * mWidth / 4, mHeight / 3);
mGradEnd = new Point(mWidth / 4, 2 * mHeight / 3);
LinearGradient gradient = new LinearGradient(
mGradStart.x,
mGradStart.y,
mGradEnd.x,
mGradEnd.y,
new int[]{ 0xCCFFCC00, 0xCCFFCC99, 0xCCFFCC00 },
null,
TileMode.CLAMP);
// create the big bitmap holding all tiles
mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(mWidth, mHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
mCanvas = new Canvas(mBitmap);
mPaintGrad = new Paint();
mPaintGrad.setShader(gradient);
mPaintEmboss = new Paint();
mPaintEmboss.setShader(gradient);
EmbossMaskFilter filter = new EmbossMaskFilter(
new float[] { 0f, 1f, 0.5f }, 0.8f, 3f, 3f);
mPaintEmboss.setMaskFilter(filter);
Drawing:
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
mGameBoard.draw(canvas);
// draw all tiles as rectangles into big bitmap
// (this code will move to onTouchEvent later)
mBitmap.eraseColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
for (SmallTile tile: mTiles) {
mCanvas.drawRect(
tile.left,
tile.top,
tile.left + tile.width,
tile.top + tile.height,
mPaintGrad);
tile.draw(mCanvas);
}
canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, 0, 0, mPaintEmboss); // emboss NOT displayed
canvas.drawText("TEXT WORKS OK", 400, 400, mPaintEmboss); // ebmoss OK
canvas.drawRect(300, 600, 800, 1200, mPaintEmboss); // emboss OK
}
The EmbossMaskFilter effect works OK with drawText() and drawRect() calls, but it does NOT work for the drawBitmap():
My question: is it possible to use some combinations of PorterDuff.Mode (and extractAlpha?) to draw an emboss around my big bitmap?
UPDATE:
By looking at HolographicOutlineHelper.java I have been able to add an outer shadow:
with the following code in MyView.java -
Setup:
public MyView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
mScale = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
mGradStart = new Point(3 * mWidth / 4, mHeight / 3);
mGradEnd = new Point(mWidth / 4, 2 * mHeight / 3);
LinearGradient gradient = new LinearGradient(
mGradStart.x,
mGradStart.y,
mGradEnd.x,
mGradEnd.y,
new int[]{ 0xCCFFCC00, 0xCCFFCC99, 0xCCFFCC00 },
null,
TileMode.CLAMP);
mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(mWidth, mHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
mCanvas = new Canvas(mBitmap);
mPaintGrad = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG | Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG);
mPaintGrad.setShader(gradient);
mPaintBlur = new Paint();
mPaintBlur.setColor(Color.BLACK);
BlurMaskFilter blurFilter = new BlurMaskFilter(mScale * 1, Blur.OUTER);
mPaintBlur.setMaskFilter(blurFilter);
}
Drawing:
private void prepareBitmaps() {
mBitmap.eraseColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
for (SmallTile tile: mTiles) {
mCanvas.drawRect(
tile.left,
tile.top,
tile.left + tile.width,
tile.top + tile.height,
mPaintGrad);
tile.draw(mCanvas);
}
mAlphaBitmap = mBitmap.extractAlpha(mPaintBlur, mOffset);
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
mGameBoard.draw(canvas);
canvas.drawBitmap(mAlphaBitmap, mOffset[0], mOffset[1], mPaintBlur);
canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, 0, 0, mPaintGrad);
}
but unfortunately the app is acting slow now - and I still don't know how to add an emboss effect around the bitmap.
I'm not sure i got exacly what you need, but if you just want to apply EmbossMaskFilter around some png letter with alpha channel, you can pretty much do this trick with
EmbossMaskFilter filter = new EmbossMaskFilter(new float[]{1, 1, 1}, 0.5f, 0.6f, 2f);
Paint paintEmboss = new Paint();
paintEmboss.setMaskFilter(embossMaskFilter);
Bitmap helperBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas helperCanvas = new Canvas(helperBitmap);
Bitmap alpha = src.extractAlpha();
helperCanvas.drawBitmap(alpha, 0, 0, paintEmboss);
alpha.recycle();
...
canvas.drawBitmap(helperBitmap, 0, 0, anyPaint);
You will never want all of this code in 1 onDraw, because it creates lots of objects in memory. And src.extractAlpha(); creates new Bitmap each time. (Btw i always get out of memory error from your project git . Added mAlphaBitmap.recycle(); and it could at least boot. But it still lagges like hell)
So, i played with your git repository and got some results. Here is demo image and git repo of first commit:
But then i realized, that you don't need EmbossMaskFilter around letters, you need them around rectangles. And it can be done pretty much the same way. Here is how i done this:
Create new helper static Bitmap and Canvas for emboss background, just like mAlphaBitmap
On each prepareBitmaps() paint rects on helper bitmap. Solid color with no alpha.
Extract alpha from created bitmap like this Bitmap alpha = helperCanvas.extractAlpha();
Draw extracted alpha bitmap on helper with paint with emboss filter helperCanvas.drawBitmap(alpha, 0, 0, paintEmboss);
In onDraw print helperBitmap with some alpha before main Bitmap.
Here is screenshot without alpha(because it is much easier to see the shapes this way)
Here is git demo of this version: https://github.com/varren/AndroidEmbossMaskFilterForPng/blob/1d692d576e78bd434252a8a6c6ad2ee9f4c6dbd8/app/src/main/java/de/afarber/mytiles2/MyView.java
And here is essential part of code i changed in your project:
private static final EmbossMaskFilter filter =
new EmbossMaskFilter(new float[]{1, 1, 1}, 0.5f, 0.6f, 2f);
private static Canvas helperCanvas;
private static Paint paintEmboss;
public Canvas getHelperCanvas(int width, int height){
if (mAlphaBitmap == null) {
mAlphaBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
helperCanvas = new Canvas(mAlphaBitmap);
paintEmboss = new Paint();
paintEmboss.setColor(Color.BLACK);
}
return helperCanvas;
}
private void prepareBitmaps() {
mCanvas.drawColor(Color.TRANSPARENT, PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR);
helperCanvas = getHelperCanvas(mBitmap.getWidth(),mBitmap.getHeight());
helperCanvas.drawColor(Color.TRANSPARENT, PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR);
paintEmboss.setMaskFilter(null);
paintEmboss.setAlpha(255);
for (SmallTile tile: mTiles) {
if (!tile.visible) continue;
helperCanvas.drawRect(tile.left,tile.top,tile.left + tile.width,
tile.top + tile.height,paintEmboss);
mCanvas.drawRect(tile.left, tile.top,tile.left + tile.width,
tile.top + tile.height, mPaintGrad);
tile.draw(mCanvas);
}
paintEmboss.setMaskFilter(filter);
Bitmap alpha = mAlphaBitmap.extractAlpha();
helperCanvas.drawBitmap(alpha, 0, 0, paintEmboss);
}
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// ...
paintEmboss.setAlpha(255); //todo change alpha here
if(mAlphaBitmap!= null)canvas.drawBitmap(mAlphaBitmap, 0,0, paintEmboss);
if(mBitmap!= null)canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, 0, 0, mPaintGrad);
// ...
}
And the last 3-d step i made is to move everything from onDraw to prepareBitmaps() and preformance is fine now, but we have text destortion on resize. so here is source code for this step.
And here is kinda fine working final solution. Moving all paints with filters solved preformance issues, but i think there are still better options to implement this. As i said erlier i don't know is it what you need, but this code pretty much creates Emboss around Bitmap
PS: kinda cool effect when splitting and adding cells together
PS2: new EmbossMaskFilter(new float[] { 0f, 1f, 0.5f }, 0.8f, 3f, 3f); this will not look the same on diferent devices with diferent screen resolution
Here's a suggestion using a custom layout.
You'll need your own layout for the scrabble board. Since it's grid, this should be pretty easy to code.
The basic idea is to have a set of PNG shadow images, one for each type of combination of adjacent cells. In your layout onDraw(), draw the shadows first, then draw the tile in onLayout().
In onDraw(), iterate through your array of tiles placeholders. If you have a tile, then for each edge, inspect the adjacent cells. Depending on what's adjacent, choose the correct shadow image and draw it.
You can reduce the number of shadow images substantially by having a shadow image which is exactly the width of a tile and then specializing the corner area: one for 270 degrees, one for straight alignment, one for 90 degrees.
I don't know if using porter-duff can help since you still need to determine all these "edge" cases (no pun intended).

Android Cover Flow with image shadow effect

I want to implement cover flow as below
I have tried Carousel, but its not the same thing. Did some google search was not able to find something even near to the cover flow implemented in given example.
Definitely have a look at this, FancyCoverFlow.
There is a demo app for it in the Play store as well that shows the reflection requirement you'd like.
have you tried this:
blog post
public Bitmap getRefelection(Bitmap image) {
// The gap we want between the reflection and the original image
final int reflectionGap = 0;
// Get you bit map from drawable folder
Bitmap originalImage = image;
int width = originalImage.getWidth();
int height = originalImage.getHeight();
// This will not scale but will flip on the Y axis
Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.preScale(1, -1);
// Create a Bitmap with the flip matix applied to it.
// We only want the bottom half of the image
/*if(bitmapWithReflection!=null && !bitmapWithReflection.isRecycled()){
bitmapWithReflection.recycle();
bitmapWithReflection=null;
}*/
Bitmap reflectionImage = Bitmap.createBitmap(originalImage, 0,
height / 2, width, height / 2, matrix, false);
// Create a new bitmap with same width but taller to fit reflection
Bitmap bitmapWithReflection = Bitmap.createBitmap(width,(height + height / 2), Config.ARGB_8888);
// Create a new Canvas with the bitmap that's big enough for
// the image plus gap plus reflection
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmapWithReflection);
// Draw in the original image
canvas.drawBitmap(originalImage, 0, 0, null);
//Draw the reflection Image
canvas.drawBitmap(reflectionImage, 0, height + reflectionGap, null);
// Create a shader that is a linear gradient that covers the reflection
Paint paint = new Paint();
LinearGradient shader = new LinearGradient(0,
originalImage.getHeight(), 0, bitmapWithReflection.getHeight()
+ reflectionGap, 0x40ffffff, 0x00ffffff, TileMode.CLAMP);
// Set the paint to use this shader (linear gradient)
paint.setShader(shader);
// Set the Transfer mode to be porter duff and destination in
paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.DST_IN));
// Draw a rectangle using the paint with our linear gradient
canvas.drawRect(0, height, width, bitmapWithReflection.getHeight()
+ reflectionGap, paint);
if(originalImage!=null && originalImage.isRecycled()){
originalImage.recycle();
originalImage=null;
}
if(reflectionImage!=null && reflectionImage.isRecycled()){
reflectionImage.recycle();
reflectionImage=null;
}
return bitmapWithReflection;
}
Have you gone through the Android Coverflow which is bit different form the Carousel which you want.
I made cover flow widget which is not dependent on gallery.
You can find it here. I will add some samples later.
http://applm.github.io/ma-components/

Clearly understand matrix calculation

I have this code snippet. I don't understand the Matrix.preScale and the Bitmap.createBitmap with the matrix passed. What does it mean? Is there any simulation website to understand matrix calculation? Could you give me some websites about mathematics used for graphics? I'm sorry I'm not good at mathematics. :)
public Bitmap createReflectedImages(final Bitmap originalImage) {
final int width = originalImage.getWidth();
final int height = originalImage.getHeight();
final Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.preScale(1, -1);
final Bitmap reflectionImage = Bitmap.createBitmap(originalImage, 0, (int) (height * imageReflectionRatio),
width, (int) (height - height * imageReflectionRatio), matrix, false);
final Bitmap bitmapWithReflection = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, (int) (height + height * imageReflectionRatio + 400),
Config.ARGB_8888);
final Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmapWithReflection);
canvas.drawBitmap(originalImage, 0, 0, null);
final Paint deafaultPaint = new Paint();
deafaultPaint.setColor(color.transparent);
canvas.drawBitmap(reflectionImage, 0, height + reflectionGap, null);
final Paint paint = new Paint();
final LinearGradient shader = new LinearGradient(0, originalImage.getHeight(), 0,
bitmapWithReflection.getHeight() + reflectionGap, 0x70ffffff, 0x00ffffff, TileMode.CLAMP);
paint.setShader(shader);
paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.DST_IN));
canvas.drawRect(0, height, width, bitmapWithReflection.getHeight() + reflectionGap, paint);
return bitmapWithReflection;
}
Don't think about it too hard, at least not at the early stages.
Just think of a matrix as an array of numbers. In this case, an Android Matrix has 3 rows of 3 numbers. Each number tells an Android graphics function what to do to scale (bigger/smaller), translate (move), rotate (turn) or skew (distort in a 2D plane) the "thing" which the matrix is applied to.
The matrix looks like this (see the docs here).
{Scale X, Skew X, Transform X
Skew Y, Scale Y, Transform Y
Perspective 0, Perspective 1, Perspective 2}
The good news is that you don't need to know any matrix maths, indeed almost no maths, to use matrices in Android. That's what methods like preScale() do for you. To understand the maths behind is not that hard, for most things you only need add, multiply and SOHCAHTOA.
matrix-transform-for-the-mathematically-challenged/
When you read the Matrix documentation, you will see methods for rotate, translate etc with prefixes of 'set', 'post' or 'pre'.
Imagine that you create a new matrix. You then use setRotate() to setup the matrix to do a rotation. You then use preTranslate() to do a translation. Because you used 'pre', the translation happens before the rotation. Had you used 'post', the rotation would happen first. 'set' clears whatever is in the matrix and starts again.
To answer your specific question, new Matrix() creates the 'identity matrix'
{1, 0, 0
0, 1, 0
0, 0, 1}
which scales by 1 (therefore same size) and does no translation, rotation or skew. Therefore, applying the identity matrix will do nothing. The next method is preScale() which is applied to this identity matrix and in the case you've shown, results in a matrix that scales, and does nothing else so could also be done using setScale() or postScale().

How to create white border around bitmap?

For example I want a white border of 10pixel around all 4 side of the bitmap. I am not using it for imageview
I am currently using this code to crop image. May I know how I could add a white border into it?
public Bitmap scaleCenterCrop(Bitmap source, int newHeight, int newWidth) {
int sourceWidth = source.getWidth();
int sourceHeight = source.getHeight();
// Compute the scaling factors to fit the new height and width, respectively.
// To cover the final image, the final scaling will be the bigger
// of these two.
float xScale = (float) newWidth / sourceWidth;
float yScale = (float) newHeight / sourceHeight;
float scale = Math.max(xScale, yScale);
// Now get the size of the source bitmap when scaled
float scaledWidth = scale * sourceWidth;
float scaledHeight = scale * sourceHeight;
// Let's find out the upper left coordinates if the scaled bitmap
// should be centered in the new size give by the parameters
float left = (newWidth - scaledWidth) / 2;
float top = (newHeight - scaledHeight) / 2;
// The target rectangle for the new, scaled version of the source bitmap will now
// be
RectF targetRect = new RectF(left, top, left + scaledWidth, top + scaledHeight);
// Finally, we create a new bitmap of the specified size and draw our new,
// scaled bitmap onto it.
Bitmap dest = Bitmap.createBitmap(newWidth, newHeight, source.getConfig());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(dest);
canvas.drawBitmap(source, null, targetRect, null);
return dest;
}
I wrote a function for this:
private Bitmap addWhiteBorder(Bitmap bmp, int borderSize) {
Bitmap bmpWithBorder = Bitmap.createBitmap(bmp.getWidth() + borderSize * 2, bmp.getHeight() + borderSize * 2, bmp.getConfig());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bmpWithBorder);
canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
canvas.drawBitmap(bmp, borderSize, borderSize, null);
return bmpWithBorder;
}
Basically it creates a new Bitmap adding 2 * bordersize to each dimension and then paints the original Bitmap over it, offsetting it with bordersize.
As for a way of doing this. You make your bitmap bigger than the one your adding to it and then fill the canvas with the background you want. If you need to add other effects you can look into the canvas options for clipping the rect and adding rounded corners and such.
RectF targetRect = new RectF(left+10, top+10, left + scaledWidth, top + scaledHeight);
Bitmap dest = Bitmap.createBitmap(newWidth+20, newHeight+20, source.getConfig());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(dest);
canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
canvas.drawBitmap(source, null, targetRect, null);
You can draw 4 rectangles after painting your bitmap's stuff.
point 0,0,3,sizey
point 0,0,sizex,3
point 0,sizey-3,sizex,sizey
point sizex-3,0,sizex,sizey
the accepted answer is nice but in the cases that bitmap contains a transparent background, it fills all over the background of source bitmap with white pixels. so it doesn't work fine for all cases.
a better way to achieve this goal is using Canvas#drawLine method like the following code:
Bitmap drawBorder(Bitmap source) {
int width = source.getWidth();
int height = source.getHeight();
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, source.getConfig());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setStrokeWidth(50);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
canvas.drawLine(0, 0, width, 0, paint);
canvas.drawLine(width, 0, width, height, paint);
canvas.drawLine(width, height, 0, height, paint);
canvas.drawLine(0, height, 0, 0, paint);
canvas.drawBitmap(source, 0, 0, null);
return bitmap;
}
in this way we first create a second bitmap using source bitmap width, height and config and use drawline() mathod four times to draw four lines using coordinates of end points of each line around the second bitmap and then draw the source bitmap on the second bitmap that must be returned.
A super easy way of doing it would be to set the ImageView background to white and add a padding value.
If that doesn't work, create a FrameLayout with w/h of wrap_content, set its background to white, put the ImageView in there, and set the ImageView's margins to the desired border width.
Its not elegant but you can always just draw a rectangle behind it, you already have the code to do this and any performance impact is going to be unnoticeable
You can create your targetRectangle 20px wider and 20px higher
RectF targetRect = new RectF(left, top, left + scaledWidth + 20, top + scaledHeight + 20);
and paint the background white
Try this it will also add border to your canvas
canvas.drawLine(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), 0, paint2);
canvas.drawLine(0, 0, 0, canvas.getHeight(), paint2);
canvas.drawLine(0, canvas.getHeight(), canvas.getWidth(),
canvas.getHeight(), paint2);
canvas.drawLine(canvas.getWidth(), 0, canvas.getWidth(),
canvas.getHeight(), paint2);

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