I need help on making the touched areas of bitmap image transparent(seems like erasing) while I am moving my finger on that image.
I am having a PNG file with Alpha channel in it. I want to turn the touched pixels to transparent so that, the user can feel that he is actually erasing it.
For this I am using frame layout to load 2 layers. Down layer is for content and upper layer is an Imageview for erasing. I need erase the upper layer when user touch and move his finger on it.
I am not getting how to make it transparent. can anyone please help me in this. If possible please direct me to any sample code, as I am very new to this image processing.
Thanks in advance.
You need to set the PorterDuff mode on a Paint object:
mPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC))
and draw with Color.TRANSPARENT
Also see this thread in the Android developer group:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/5b0a498664b17aa0/de4aab6fb7e97e38?lnk=gst&q=erase+transparent#
ImageView has a setAlpha method which takes an integer between 0 and 255. I don't know which is transparent and which is opaque but it shouldn't take a long time to try :P
It works but didn't Draw Path.
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Bitmap.Config;
import android.graphics.BlurMaskFilter.Blur;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.BlurMaskFilter;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode;
import android.graphics.PorterDuffXfermode;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
public class StartActivity extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(new TouchView(this));
}
class TouchView extends View{
Bitmap bgr;
Bitmap overlayDefault;
Bitmap overlay;
Paint pTouch;
int X = -100;
int Y = -100;
Canvas c2;
public TouchView(Context context) {
super(context);
bgr = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.bgr);
overlayDefault = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.over);
overlay = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.over).copy(Config.ARGB_8888, true);
c2 = new Canvas(overlay);
pTouch = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
pTouch.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.SRC_OUT));
pTouch.setColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
pTouch.setMaskFilter(new BlurMaskFilter(15, Blur.NORMAL));
}
@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
switch (ev.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: {
X = (int) ev.getX();
Y = (int) ev.getY();
invalidate();
break;
}
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE: {
X = (int) ev.getX();
Y = (int) ev.getY();
invalidate();
break;
}
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
break;
}
return true;
}
@Override
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas){
super.onDraw(canvas);
//draw background
canvas.drawBitmap(bgr, 0, 0, null);
//copy the default overlay into temporary overlay and punch a hole in it
c2.drawBitmap(overlayDefault, 0, 0, null); //exclude this line to show all as you draw
c2.drawCircle(X, Y, 80, pTouch);
//draw the overlay over the background
canvas.drawBitmap(overlay, 0, 0, null);
}
}
}