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take screenshot of entire screen programmatically

I have this code for take screenshot of current view, a fragment that lives into an activity, where the activity has only a background.
private File captureScreen() {
Bitmap screenshot = null;
try {
if (view != null) {
screenshot = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getMeasuredWidth(),
view.getMeasuredHeight(), Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(screenshot);
view.draw(canvas);
// save pics
File cache_dir = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
screenshot.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 90, bytes);
File f = new File(cache_dir + File.separator + "screen.png");
f.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream(f);
fo.write(bytes.toByteArray());
fo.close();
return f;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO
}
return null;
}
but bitmap saved is not exactly what i'm expecting.
Screenshot take only fragment elements, but not activity background. How can i include it into screenshot?

From :How to programmatically take a screenshot in Android?
// image naming and path to include sd card appending name you choose for file
String mPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString() + "/" + ACCUWX.IMAGE_APPEND;
// create bitmap screen capture
Bitmap bitmap;
View v1 = mCurrentUrlMask.getRootView();
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(v1.getDrawingCache());
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
OutputStream fout = null;
imageFile = new File(mPath);
try {
fout = new FileOutputStream(imageFile);
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, fout);
fout.flush();
fout.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
try this. it work for me. and for you too

Call this method, passing in the outer most ViewGroup that you want a screen shot of:
public Bitmap screenShot(View view) {
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(),
view.getHeight(), Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
view.draw(canvas);
return bitmap;
}
I've used it for a while in a few different apps and haven't had any issues. Hope it vll helps

Android add Text to Canvas fail

I am going to create a jpeg by drawing. The element is a text and a image. When it comes to the implementation, only image and background color is drawn but there is no text. I have no diea what happens actually even I have called canvas.drawText
The below is my code
String folderName = "droidCanvas";
String textString ="Hello , I am user 12345. \n Below is my signature.";
String fileNameString = "test.jpg";
File folder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + folderName );
if(!folder.exists()){
folder.mkdir();
}
File bmpFile = new File(folder.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + fileNameString );
if(!bmpFile.exists()){
try {
bmpFile.createNewFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
//Draw something
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.RED);
Paint txtPaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
txtPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
txtPaint.setTextSize(20);
bmpBase = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
canvas = new Canvas(bmpBase);
canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
canvas.drawCircle(w/2, h/2, 300, paint);
canvas.drawText(textString ,w/2, 0 , txtPaint);
//Export to jpeg
try
{
fos = new FileOutputStream(bmpFile);
bmpBase.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, fos);
fos.flush();
fos.close();
fos = null;
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
if (fos != null)
{
try
{
fos.close();
fos = null;
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Try canvas.drawText(textString ,w/2, h/2 , txtPaint); and you will be able to at least see the text. Then you can re-position it later. Right now it is being drawn but you can't see it because its at extreme top center and out of bounds.
If you want to place it on top left corner then do this:
canvas.drawText(textString ,0 , txtPaint.getFontSpacing(), txtPaint);

edittext.getdrawing cache not working.Android

I need to convert string in the edittext to bitmap, but i am not getting the string but instead i am getting this (see the image)
my code is as follows
Canvas c=new Canvas();
MainActivity.editText.setCursorVisible(false);
MainActivity.editText.buildDrawingCache();
Bitmap bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(MainActivity.editText.getDrawingCache());
System.out.println("string is "+MainActivity.editText.getText().toString());
File f =new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/Photo Text");
if(!f.exists())
{
f.mkdirs();
}
f = new File(f.getAbsolutePath(),
String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()) +"phototext.jpg");
if(!f.exists())
{
try {
f.createNewFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
try {
bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, new FileOutputStream(f));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
c.drawBitmap(bmp,0,0, mPaint);
Please suggest me. I need the string from the edittext as a bitmap.

Why not get the text of the ExitText and then draw it on Canvas with drawText()?
String text = editText.getText().toString();
canvas.drawText(text, 0, 0, paint);
and set the canvas height and width depending of text height and length.

Android: Saving photo with image on photo

When I take a picture with my Android camera, there is an image (imageview3) on my screen that I want to save with my picture.
Here is my onPictureTaken method
public void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera camera) {
File imagesFolder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "/Ker");
imagesFolder.mkdirs();
String fileName = "Ker_.jpg";
output = new File(imagesFolder, fileName);
ImageView view = (ImageView) gameactivity.findViewById(R.id.imageView3);
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap b = view.getDrawingCache();
FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(output);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
b.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 95, fos);
try {
fos.write(data);
fos.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
camera.stopPreview();
}
When I open the folder, the picture saved is only the imageview3 with a black background. Why has the real camera view not been saved?
EDIT
I'm trying something with canvas too:
output = new File(imagesFolder, fileName);
ImageView view = (ImageView) gameactivity.findViewById(R.id.imageView3);
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap b = view.getDrawingCache();
FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(output);
fos.write(data);
fos.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
FileOutputStream fos2 = null;
b.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 95, fos2);
try {
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fos.getFD());
Bitmap bitmap2 = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fos2.getFD());
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap2, null, null);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
Is that correct? How to save the canvas into a file on my sdcard (ie write data from canvas on fileoutputstream)

You're appending the JPEG of the imageview and the JPEG from the camera into a single file.
Create a separate file output stream for each file, and write the data from Bitmap.compress() and the onPictureTaken data array into their own streams.
If you want the two images to be combined into a single image, you'll need to decode the data array into a Bitmap, and then use a Canvas to draw the ImageView bitmap and the camera-captured Bitmap onto the canvas in the arrangement you want, and then save that out as a single jpeg.
You can't simply concatenate two compressed JPEG bitstreams together; the file format doesn't work that way.

how to create pdf file with multiple pages from image file in android

How to create PDF file with multiple pages from image file in Android? I created one PDF file from image. That PDF file has one page. That is half of that image. In the right side search part is cut in PDF file.
I am using itext-5.3.4.jar for create PDF.
wbviewnews.loadUrl("http://developer.android.com/about/index.html");
// button for create wbpage to image than image to PDF file
Button btnclick =(Button)findViewById(R.id.btnclick);
btnclick.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Picture p = wbviewnews.capturePicture();
bitmap=null;
PictureDrawable pictureDrawable = new PictureDrawable(p);
bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(pictureDrawable.getIntrinsicWidth(),pictureDrawable.getIntrinsicHeight(), Config.ARGB_8888);
//Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(200,200, Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
canvas.drawPicture(pictureDrawable.getPicture());
ImageView imgdata=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imgdata);
imgdata.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
String filename = "pippo.png";
File sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File dest = new File(sd, filename);
String pdffilename = "pippo.pdf";
File pdffilepath = new File(sd, pdffilename);
try {
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(dest);
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);
out.flush();
out.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
Log.e("Exception", e.toString());
}
Document document=new Document();
try {
Log.e("pdffilepath", pdffilepath.toString());
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream(pdffilepath));
document.open();
// URL url = new URL (Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/"+filename);
// Log.e("url", url.toString());
Image image = Image.getInstance(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/"+filename) ;
document.add(image);
document.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
Log.e("FileNotFoundException", e.toString());
} catch (DocumentException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
Log.e("DocumentException", e.toString());
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
Log.e("MalformedURLException", e.toString());
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
Log.e("IOException", e.toString());
}
}
});

Your search through StackOverflow is less I guess cause I found these answer already there having solution, yes its contained in different answer and looking at the Q/A I guess they can solve your problem, if not then keep trying :)
how to Generate Pdf File with Image in android?
How to create a PDF with multiple pages from a Graphics object with Java and itext
iText Example

if your linear layout height is very large than try this code
https://demonuts.com/android-generate-pdf-view/
follow this link and just change the lines
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
PdfDocument.PageInfo pageInfo = new PdfDocument.PageInfo.Builder(convertWidth, 10000, 1).create();
PdfDocument.Page page = document.startPage(pageInfo);
Canvas canvas = page.getCanvas();
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.BLUE);
canvas.drawPaint(paint);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, convertWidth, 10000, true);
canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0 , null);
document.finishPage(page);`

If you want to create a pdf file with multiple images you can use PdfDocument from Android. Here is a demo:
private void createPDFWithMultipleImage(){
File file = getOutputFile();
if (file != null){
try {
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument();
for (int i = 0; i < images.size(); i++){
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(images.get(i).getPath());
PdfDocument.PageInfo pageInfo = new PdfDocument.PageInfo.Builder(bitmap.getWidth(), bitmap.getHeight(), (i + 1)).create();
PdfDocument.Page page = pdfDocument.startPage(pageInfo);
Canvas canvas = page.getCanvas();
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.BLUE);
canvas.drawPaint(paint);
canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, 0f, 0f, null);
pdfDocument.finishPage(page);
bitmap.recycle();
}
pdfDocument.writeTo(fileOutputStream);
pdfDocument.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
private File getOutputFile(){
File root = new File(this.getExternalFilesDir(null),"My PDF Folder");
boolean isFolderCreated = true;
if (!root.exists()){
isFolderCreated = root.mkdir();
}
if (isFolderCreated) {
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss", Locale.US).format(new Date());
String imageFileName = "PDF_" + timeStamp;
return new File(root, imageFileName + ".pdf");
}
else {
Toast.makeText(this, "Folder is not created", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return null;
}
}
Here images is the ArrayList of the images with path.

you can set the image like this way...
Bitmap bt=Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(btm, 200, 200, false);
bt.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG,100, bos);