drawBitmap() and setPixels(): what's the stride?

Question

Could please somebody explain me (ASCII is really welcome) what the stride argument stands for in Canvas.drawBitmap() and in Bitmap.setPixels()/getPixels()? I under

Answer 1

Here is a good explanation from Microsoft about what stride generally is in images. So, in plain English, it defines for how many steps will the computer scan image data until it assumes that it is on a next line.

I also believe that @Romain Guy's example would also require to set x = 50 and height = 50 if I understand it correctly.