Fast Bitmap Blur For Android SDK

Question

Currently in an Android application that I\'m developing I\'m looping through the pixels of an image to blur it. This takes about 30 seconds on a 640x480 image.

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Answer 1

On the i/o 2019 the following solution was presented:

/**
 * Blurs the given Bitmap image
 * @param bitmap Image to blur
 * @param applicationContext Application context
 * @return Blurred bitmap image
 */
@WorkerThread
fun blurBitmap(bitmap: Bitmap, applicationContext: Context): Bitmap {
    lateinit var rsContext: RenderScript
    try {

        // Create the output bitmap
        val output = Bitmap.createBitmap(
                bitmap.width, bitmap.height, bitmap.config)

        // Blur the image
        rsContext = RenderScript.create(applicationContext, RenderScript.ContextType.DEBUG)
        val inAlloc = Allocation.createFromBitmap(rsContext, bitmap)
        val outAlloc = Allocation.createTyped(rsContext, inAlloc.type)
        val theIntrinsic = ScriptIntrinsicBlur.create(rsContext, Element.U8_4(rsContext))
        theIntrinsic.apply {
            setRadius(10f)
            theIntrinsic.setInput(inAlloc)
            theIntrinsic.forEach(outAlloc)
        }
        outAlloc.copyTo(output)

        return output
    } finally {
        rsContext.finish()
    }
}