How to create a square bitmap from a rectangular bitmap in Android

Question

Basically, I have a rectangular bitmap and want to create a new Bitmap with squared dimensions which will contain the rectangular bitmap inside of it.

So, for example, i

Answer 1

Try this:

    private static Bitmap createSquaredBitmap(Bitmap srcBmp) {
        int dim = Math.max(srcBmp.getWidth(), srcBmp.getHeight());
        Bitmap dstBmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(dim, dim, Config.ARGB_8888);

        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(dstBmp);
        canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
        canvas.drawBitmap(srcBmp, (dim - srcBmp.getWidth()) / 2, (dim - srcBmp.getHeight()) / 2, null);

        return dstBmp;
    }