Get Android view as Bitmap to save it on SD

Question

I\'m trying to save the path that is being drawn on a View but I just can\'t figure out how to do this.

Here is what I\'m doing in my Activity to create the View and set

Answer 1

You may try this:

public static Bitmap getBitmapFromView(View view) {
    //Define a bitmap with the same size as the view
    Bitmap returnedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(), view.getHeight(),Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    //Bind a canvas to it
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(returnedBitmap);
    //Get the view's background
    Drawable bgDrawable =view.getBackground();
    if (bgDrawable!=null)
        //has background drawable, then draw it on the canvas
        bgDrawable.draw(canvas);
    else
        //does not have background drawable, then draw white background on the canvas
        canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
    // draw the view on the canvas
    view.draw(canvas);
    //return the bitmap
    return returnedBitmap;
}

EDIT:

How do you the above method?

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    View accPathView = new AccPathView(this, steps);
    setContentView(accPathView);

    accPathView.post(new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
             Bitmap viewBitmap = getBitmapFromView(accPathView);
         }
    });

    // your remaining oncreate

}