High resolution screen shot in Android

Question

Is there any way to get a high resolution screen shot of a certain view in an activity.

I want to convert html content of my webview to PDF. For that I

Answer 1

When you capture the view, just screen bound will capture ( due to control weight and android render pipeline ).

Capturing screenshot for converting to PDF is tricky way. I think two way is more reasonable solutions.

Solution #1

Write a parser ( it's simple ) to convert webview content ( that is HTML ) to iText format.
You can refer to this article for more information.
http://www.vogella.com/articles/JavaPDF/article.html

Also to write a parser you can use REGEX and provide your own methods like parseTable, parseImage, ...

Solution #2 Internet Required

Provide a URL ( or webservice ) to convert HTML to PDF using PHP or C# that has a lot of nice libraries. Next you can send download link to the Client ( Android Device ).

So you can also dynamically add some Tags, Banners, ... to the PDF from server side.