Getting the pixel color value of a point on an Android View that includes a Bitmap-backed Canvas

Question

I\'m trying to figure out the best way to get the pixel color value at a given point on a View. There are three ways that I write to the View:

1. I set a back

Answer 1

How about load the view to a bitmap (at some point after all your drawing/sprites etc is done), then get the pixel color from the bitmap?

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View v) {
    Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap( v.getLayoutParams().width, v.getLayoutParams().height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);                
    Canvas c = new Canvas(b);
    v.layout(0, 0, v.getLayoutParams().width, v.getLayoutParams().height);
    v.draw(c);
    return b;
}

then use getPixel(x,y) on the result?

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.html#getPixel%28int,%20int%29