Take a screenshot of a whole View

Question

I have built a table which is basically done by HorizontalScrollView inside a ScrollView. I made the user can edit the fields.

Now I want to save the table on a screen, jpg, png, pdf or anything else.

The problem is - the table is nearly always bigger than the screen.

Is there a way to make a screenshot of the whole ScrollView layout? If not what do you think can do the job?

Answer 1

Actually I found the answer:

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View v, int width, int height) {
    Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(width , 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;
}

Answer 2

Using @softwaresupply answer causes problem in my case where my view was getting redrawn and getting completely white. There is an easier solution to get screenshot where you don't even have to supply width and height as parameters. Use Drawing Cache.

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View v) {
    Bitmap bitmap;
    v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
    bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(v.getDrawingCache());
    v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
    return bitmap;
}

Answer 3

this work for me, hope it helpful for you too.

public static Bitmap getBitmapByView(ScrollView scrollView) {
    int h = 0;
    Bitmap bitmap = null;
    //get the actual height of scrollview
    for (int i = 0; i < scrollView.getChildCount(); i++) {
        h += scrollView.getChildAt(i).getHeight();
        scrollView.getChildAt(i).setBackgroundResource(R.color.white);
    }
    // create bitmap with target size
    bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(scrollView.getWidth(), h,
            Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    final Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
    scrollView.draw(canvas);
    FileOutputStream out = null;
    try {
        out = new FileOutputStream("/sdcard/screen_test.png");
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    try {
        if (null != out) {
            bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);
            out.flush();
            out.close();
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
    }
    return bitmap;
}

Answer 4

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(ScrollView v) {
    Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(v.getWidth() , v.getChildAt(0).getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    Canvas c = new Canvas(b);
    v.draw(c);
    return b;
}

Answer 5

  ScrollView iv = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.scrollView);
  Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(
        iv.getChildAt(0).getWidth(), 
        iv.getChildAt(0).getHeight(), 
        Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
  Canvas c = new Canvas(bitmap);
  iv.getChildAt(0).draw(c);

  // Do whatever you want with your bitmap
  saveBitmap(bitmap);

Answer 6

//set button click listener

    share = (Button)findViewById(R.id.share);
    share.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Bitmap bitmap = takeScreenshot();
            saveBitmap(bitmap);

        }
    });

//then you have to create two method

    public Bitmap takeScreenshot() {
    View rootView = findViewById(android.R.id.content).getRootView();
    rootView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
    return rootView.getDrawingCache();
    }

    public void saveBitmap(Bitmap bitmap) {
    File imagePath = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/screenshot.png");
    FileOutputStream fos;
    try {
        fos = new FileOutputStream(imagePath);
        bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, fos);
        fos.flush();
        fos.close();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        Log.e("GREC", e.getMessage(), e);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.e("GREC", e.getMessage(), e);
    }
   }

After add this code into your app, run the app and check your local storage, you have created screen shot of whole page.