i would like to know whether is it possible to merge several images to form one complete image. For my case, is a floor plan that is split in 18 small images and i would like to merge them into one. I had one idea but not sure whether is it workable. My idea is this:
I would first place the top left most image first, with the x and y coordinates as (0,0).
Next for the subsequent images (right/bottom of this first image), using the width and height of the image, i would find out the coordinates where the next image would be placed. Doing this i presume would required 18 ImageView to achieve that.
Btw, these 18 images are .gif format and so do i need to like convert them to Bitmap or something before i can display them using ImageView?
You could merge the images to a bigger images by drawing the small images to a canvas associated with the resulting big bitmap
Canvas c=new Canvas(result_bitmapenter);
and then draw your small images onto the canvas
c.drawBitmap(small,...);
But that might not be the best way as big images eat lots of memory - perhaps you should concider dynamic loading instead of merging then
Yes its possible create a Bitmap object large enough to hold the whole floor plan and use Canvas to paint them into to the large bitmap. Be sure to cache it or you'll be recreating it every time and you'll have to convert it to png for compatibility with older devices.
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I am working on a very simple app that shows one jpg, which is scrollable on vertical axis.
I would like this image to be very large(20000x1000 px), however, when I try to run the app on my device, it says that "bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture".
Is there a way to display the image of such size in an android app?
If not, would it be possible to divide the image into segments, and after I scrolled to the bottom
of one segment, I would proceed to another?
To quote the answer for your question here:
All rendering is based on OpenGL, so no you can't go over this limit.
Note that this would take a huge amount of memory. With such big
images, if you want to zoom in out, and in a mobile environement with
heavy memory constraints, you should setup a system similar to what
you see in google maps for example. With the image split in several
pieces, and several definitions.
You could split the images into let's say 128x128 chunks. Add them to an array, and loop the array to create and fill an ImageView with the image that is currently served.
some pseudocode would be: (excuse me, I've been programming a PHP application the past few days)
Private BitMap[] imageArray = {your bitmaps from internal or external storage};
For(BitMap bm in imageArray) {
// create a new image view here, use the correct layout params or use a parrent grid view.
imageView.setBitMap(bm)
}
now once again, I am 0% sure about that pseudo code, but it should help you along.
Is it possible to scale image without loosing its quality?I have seen posts that say to use Ninepatch images but how can we download an image and convert it to ninepatch image so that i can show it in ImageView.
Is there any other way so that my images with smaller size can be scaled like in whats app
Everytime you scale an image it's losing quality, the only thing you can do to keep the quality is keeping a copy of the original image (which doesn't make much sense since you can just load it again from resources).
If you mean the problem was that android was scaling your images (and changing the quality) you can put images on a folder named "raw" inside res.
Ninepatch images can be made manually by you, you just paint an image that has two extra pixels on width and two on height, and when you save it , name it something.9.png
if you want to know how to draw them correctly follow this: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/draw9patch.html
Hi I am making a hangman, and I need to show image after image each time the player fails an attempt eg head first, then the body ect. I'm doing a layerdrawable but not how to scale it to the original image, how climb as I show the image and the images layer by layer to create the hangman?
I'd think the simplest way would be to decide what size your image is going to be. Then just use several PNG images with one body-part drawn on them and a clear background. As long as the images are all exactly over one another, you should see the familiar image of a stick figure drawn one part at a time.
Hope this helps.
I'm creating somekind of 2D image editor in Android and I have the big problem of big files don't fit in memory.
I need to zoom in/out the image put some shapes and then save it.
My question is:
How can I load the image and save it without getting out of memory?
I've been reading about bitmapregiondecode and the sample technic but there's must be another solution. How can I save the image if I always use regiondecode?
The images need good detail quality because it's architectural images... and the lines must be well defined.
I'm new to this, help me please.
Note two things while dealing with images:
tempBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bit);
clone the bitmap which you are using for zoom and other operations but wont use the original because it looses its clarity when you save;
when done with bitmap give
bit.recycle();
to release the memory space
I don't have any problem managing textures. But I didn't work that much with loading textures from images. All I know is that the texture needs to be of size 2^i by 2^i.
But what's the best technique to load any images into a texture. If the images is not a square, I can fit it in the square and add two black parts to fill what is missing. But I'm not sure how to do the stretching.
So, if I have an image of let say 800x600 and I want to put it in a 512x512 square, what's the best trick to copy the pixels into texture ? Or, specially on Android, is there some functions that exists that would do that for me ? In short, it's like I want to resize the 800x600 image to be 512x384 and put it in the texture. But I want to preserve as much information as I can.
The OP Answered his own question with:
SOLVED: a friend showed me some references that covers what I want.
To resize, you can do it with the Bitmap class of Android. You can specify a Matrix, just like the one used for OpenGL to resize the Bitmap. From that point, I expect the pixels to be well preserved and will be able to put them in the texture.
If they come back and put the answer here themselves and accept it then I will delete this answer.