Bitmap from TextView (getDrawingCache) always null

Question

I am trying to extract the bitmap associated to the displayed TextView instance, but it always returns a null value. What Am I doing wrong? Should I use textview.draw(canvas

Answer 1

Android has a maximum drawing cache size. If the drawing cache would be bigger than that, getDrawingCache() returns null. See the answer to this question.

You can find a workaround in the answer to this question.