How to convert a Drawable to a Bitmap?

Question

I would like to set a certain Drawable as the device\'s wallpaper, but all wallpaper functions accept Bitmaps only. I cannot use WallpaperMan

Answer 1

The latest androidx core library (androidx.core:core-ktx:1.2.0) now has an extension function: Drawable.toBitmap(...) to convert a Drawable to a Bitmap.

Answer 2

METHOD 1 : Either you can directly convert to bitmap like this

Bitmap myLogo = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.my_drawable);

METHOD 2 : You can even convert the resource into the drawable and from that you can get bitmap like this

Bitmap myLogo = ((BitmapDrawable)getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.logo)).getBitmap();

For API > 22 getDrawable method moved to the ResourcesCompat class so for that you do something like this

Bitmap myLogo = ((BitmapDrawable) ResourcesCompat.getDrawable(context.getResources(), R.drawable.logo, null)).getBitmap();

Answer 3

Android provides a non straight foward solution: BitmapDrawable. To get the Bitmap , we'll have to provide the resource id R.drawable.flower_pic to the a BitmapDrawable and then cast it to a Bitmap.

Bitmap bm = ((BitmapDrawable) getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.flower_pic)).getBitmap();

Answer 4

if you are using kotlin the use below code. it'll work

// for using image path

val image = Drawable.createFromPath(path)
val bitmap = (image as BitmapDrawable).bitmap

Answer 5

very simple

Bitmap tempBMP = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.image);

Answer 6

BitmapFactory.decodeResource() automatically scales the bitmap, so your bitmap may turn out fuzzy. To prevent scaling, do this:

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inScaled = false;
Bitmap source = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
                                             R.drawable.resource_name, options);

or

InputStream is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.drawable.resource_name)
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);