Create Bitmap from SurfaceView

[serveace6]

It appears that you can create a bitmap from what is showing on the
screen via View.getDrawingCache() once View.setDrawingCacheEnabled()
is set to true. But it does not seems to work for the SurfaceView.
Is there a way to do it?

[Simon Depiets]

2009/3/31 serveace6 <phuc...@gmail.com>:

I did it with an ImageView because i had the same problem you have

Worked fine with ImageView

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[Dianne Hackborn]

Sorry, by its nature a SurfaceView does not draw in the normal view hierarchy update system, so it won't be drawn in that.

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[serveace6]

So it is not possible to take a snapshot of what is showing on the
SurfaceView? If it is possible, how would you do it?

On Mar 30, 5:48 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Sorry, by its nature a SurfaceView does not draw in the normal view
> hierarchy update system, so it won't be drawn in that.
>

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, serveace6 <phucs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It appears that you can create a bitmap from what is showing on the
> > screen via View.getDrawingCache() once View.setDrawingCacheEnabled()
> > is set to true.  But it does not seems to work for the SurfaceView.
> > Is there a way to do it?
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer

> hack...@android.com

[Dianne Hackborn]

I don't believe so; the purpose of surface view is to provide a dedicated hardware accelerated drawing surface, which can be in an unusual format like yuv, so doing screenshots out of it is not that simple.

hac...@android.com

[Dave Sparks]

In fact, there are cases where the display data for the SurfaceView
isn't even accessible to the app processor - it may be the output of a
hardware video pipeline that is composited with the display output of
the app processor through a dedicated video overlay.

[serveace6]

Thanks for all the help!

[shubh]

did any one try http://www.droidnova.com/how-to-create-and-save-a-screenshot-from-a-surfaceview,880.html , here there are showing capture bitmap using surface view ?