I have a class that extends View. I override the onDraw method and allow the user to draw on the screen. I am at the point where I want to save this view as an image. I Can use buildDrawingCache and getDrawingCache to create a bitmap that I can write to the SD card. However, the image is not good quality at a large size, it has jagged edges. Since I have a View and I use Paths I can transform all by drawing to a bigger size. I just don't know how to make the Canvas bigger so when I call getDrawingCache it doesn't crop all the paths I am just transformed. What is happening is I transform all my paths but when I write the Bitmap to file I am only getting the "viewport" of the actual screen size. I want something much bigger. Any help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I have been reading the docs and books and am at a loss.
Thanks
Jon
You can create another Canvas backed by a Bitmap that you create and draw all the paths to that. Then the Bitmap will hold the larger, higher resolution image. It would look something like this:
Bitmap largeBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas largeCanvas = new Canvas(largeBitmap);
// Draw the paths to this canvas and then use largeBitmap to save to a file.
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I need to save a number of formatted circles to a Bitmap whenever a button is pushed, and then draw those circles to the canvas. I was looking around, but had a great deal of trouble finding resources on how to save a shape I had created that was not an already created resource file. Any advice on how to go about this would be appreciated.
Say you are in your custom view, but it should work also with a OnTouchListener in any view.
Create a mutable bitmap with Bitmap.createBitmap() with the same width and height of your view
use your logic for getting information of the circles, for example you can use onTouchEvent() to get the coordinates of you finger(s)
with this information you can use Bitmap.setPixel() to save it to the bitmap
optional, onDraw() you can draw your bitmap with Canvas.drawBitmap()
In case you need to draw shapes to the bitmap you can create a new Canvas(bitmap) and draw on this canvas: the pixels will be set on the bitmap.
I have a custom path which I got the coordinates from Adobe Illustrator, it's relative to a 600x600 rectangle. When I try to draw that path on Android for my Custom View, it doesn't draw at the correct size and correct location within my view. Does the density affect these coordinates? I know the canvas origin is at 0,0 for the onDraw method of my custom view but I even did the following:
Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(600, 600, Config.ARG_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
canvas.drawPath(myCustomPath);
When I check my result Bitmap, the path isn't close to where it's suppose to be. I can't figure out why it isn't working.
Thanks
I've added some images on what I get:
First this is where the original path should be:
This is what I see on my Android canvas:
As you can see, the path on the actual image isn't the same size as the one you see in Illustrator. Could this be due to my screen size on the device?
Ok I found out what my Problem was, I just wasn't scaling my Path correctly and I wasn't translating correctly to the Path's relative parent view and it's position on the Canvas.
I'm trying to dynamically create images in android by taking an existing Bitmap and removing the centre of it in order to make a "cropped" version. The resulting image's height would naturally be smaller than the original, something like the attached example.
I've got a rough way of doing this by creating two new Bitmaps from the original, one containing the top of the image above the crop section (e.g. the android's head in the example) and the other containing the remaining image below the crop section (the android's feet) using the Bitmap.createBitmap(source, x, y, width, height) method, then drawing both of these bitmaps onto a canvas of a size equal to the original image minus the removed space.
This feels a bit clunky, and as I could be calling this method several times a second, it seems wasteful to create two bitmaps each time.
I was wondering if there was a more efficient way of doing this. Something like drawing the original Bitmap onto a canvas using a Path with it's Paint's xfermode set to a
new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.DST_OUT) in order to cut out the portion of the image I wish to delete. But this seems to clear that area and not shrink the image down i.e. it leaves a big empty gap in the Android's middle.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
Why do you create two bitmaps? You only need to create one bitmap and then do canvas.drawBitmap() twice.
Bitmap bmpOriginal;
Bitmap bmpDerived = Bitmap.create(...);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bmpDerived);
canvas.drawBitmap(bmpOriginal, rectTopSrc, rectTopDst, null);
canvas.drawBitmap(bmpOriginal, rectBottomSrc, rectBottomDst, null);
Done.
Is there a way to do it? I d like to save the canvas screen as a Bitmap object, and then draw it again, to the screen.
You can construct a Canvas passing in a Bitmap onto which the canvas will draw. See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canvas.html#Canvas(android.graphics.Bitmap)
You need to construct a Bitmap appropriately sized to the view into which you want to draw.
Just guessing here, but if you are doing this because you want to draw off screen then draw the bitmap on all at once you might also look at SurfaceHolder/SurfaceView.
I have a widget which looks like this:
Every cone is a "touchable element". Now I want to put a bitmap texture above each cone. However, bitmap images are all rectangular, so a bitmap texture above one cone would interfere with the bitmap texture above another cone.
I'm wondering what is the best solution to this approach. Should I just create an image which fits (as a rectangle) exactly above the cone and make the non used areas transparent?
A second question is, how do bitmap textures work with stretching? Because this whole circle draws itself to fit the whole screen size, while bitmap textures are pretty much one size.
Offhand I can't think of a better way to draw bitmaps over those cones than your own suggestion of using transparent zones.
However, I can help with your second question as stretching bitmaps is not hard. You've got a few options in the Canvas class. For example:
canvas.save();
canvas.scale(xRatio, yRatio);
canvas.drawBitmap(....);
canvas.restore();
You can also use a Matrix, using matrix.postScale(xRatio, yRatio), to then generate either a larger bitmap and draw it normally, or pass the matrix in to your canvas.drawBitmap(....) command to make it scale while it draws.
All of these methods assume you have access to the drawing canvas itself. If you are using a view, you can subclass it and override the onDraw(Canvas canvas) method to grab the canvas before it starts drawing it. If you're using a SurfaceHolder, then you should already know how to get the canvas.
Edit: I forgot the third method I was going to describe. You can use the canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, srcRect, dstRect, paint) to also make the canvas scale the bitmap to fit the destination rectangle. In short, there are lots of methods to do this - pick the one that's easiest based on your application!