How to convert a Bitmap to Drawable in android?

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How can I convert a Bitmap image to Drawable ?

Hi i got the answer of your question follow this link and got the right answer i do it. and i success,i hope you got the success. best of luck http://www.androidsnippets.com/convert-bitmap-to-drawable — Zala Janaksinh, Jul 12 '12 at 09:44
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score 887 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 15 '15 at 13:41

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Try this it converts a Bitmap type image to Drawable

Drawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);

edited Apr 15 '15 at 13:41

ViliusK

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answered Dec 30 '10 at 07:04

Manoj

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score 283 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 18 '16 at 12:19

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Sounds like you want to use BitmapDrawable

From the documentation:

A Drawable that wraps a bitmap and can be tiled, stretched, or aligned. You can create a BitmapDrawable from a file path, an input stream, through XML inflation, or from a Bitmap object.

edited Jul 18 '16 at 12:19

Yasin Kaçmaz

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answered Mar 10 '10 at 11:17

Graeme Duncan

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@Deprecated Use BitmapDrawable(Resources, Bitmap) to ensure that the drawable has correctly set its target density. – Camille Sévigny Jun 24 '14 at 18:23

score 162 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 15 '15 at 13:42

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Having seen a large amount of issues with bitmaps incorrectly scaling when converted to a BitmapDrawable, the general way to convert should be:

Drawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);

Without the Resources reference, the bitmap may not render properly, even when scaled correctly. There are numerous questions on here which would be solved simply by using this method rather than a straight call with only the bitmap argument.

edited Apr 15 '15 at 13:42

ViliusK

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answered Jan 31 '12 at 11:14

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At least comment why if you're going to down vote. This is a perfectly valid answer, and brings extra information to solve issues that can occur with the other answers offered. Drawables made directly from a bitmap often have scaling errors without the getResources() reference. – Zulaxia Mar 03 '12 at 16:27
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this is a more accurate answer considering the one from @Manoj is deprecated. – Raykud Mar 09 '12 at 21:51
@Raykud, Manoj's answer and this answer show the same code. And, how it is deprecated? And, how is this accurate if that is deprecated and this too is deprecated(It in real is not deprecated) – Sambhav Khandelwal Apr 21 '22 at 09:41
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@Sambhav.K because original answer from Manoj was "Drawable d =new BitmapDrawable(bitmap);" but was edited years later. – Raykud Apr 21 '22 at 16:40

score 35 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 19 '16 at 08:41

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Offical Bitmapdrawable documentation

This is sample on how to convert bitmap to drawable

Bitmap bitmap;  
//Convert bitmap to drawable
Drawable drawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
imageView.setImageDrawable(drawable);

edited Jan 19 '16 at 08:41

Ziem

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answered Jun 11 '14 at 11:20

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sorry...i was not serious – Abhi Apr 18 '16 at 11:29
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You could have upvoted instead of writing the same answer. – CopsOnRoad Oct 04 '17 at 09:20

score 32 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 00:06

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I used with context

//Convert bitmap to drawable
Drawable drawable = new BitmapDrawable(context.getResources(), bitmap);

answered Oct 13 '16 at 00:06

Samuel Seda

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Duplicate answer. – CopsOnRoad Oct 04 '17 at 09:21

score 23 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 07 '19 at 08:27

1) bitmap to Drawable :

Drawable mDrawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
// mImageView.setDrawable(mDrawable);

2) drawable to Bitmap :

Bitmap mIcon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),R.drawable.icon_resource);
// mImageView.setImageBitmap(mIcon);

score 20 · Answer 7 · edited Jan 19 '16 at 08:41

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If you have a bitmap image and you want to use it in drawable, like

Bitmap contact_pic;    //a picture to show in drawable
drawable = new BitmapDrawable(contact_pic);

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Ziem

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answered Nov 20 '12 at 06:50

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That's deprecated now. Use the BitmapDrawable(Resources, Bitmap) constructor now. – schlingel Jan 16 '13 at 11:55
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@schlingel It still working fine and many of us are using it in our projects, – Pir Fahim Shah Jul 09 '14 at 11:50
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That's good for you, but doesn't help when Google eventually kills this constructor and you have to rewrite everything. – schlingel Jul 09 '14 at 11:55
@schlingel yes, but still some one in rush use this and it make a work – Pir Fahim Shah Jul 09 '14 at 15:03

score 11 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 23 '15 at 16:55

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Just do this:

private void setImg(ImageView mImageView, Bitmap bitmap) {

    Drawable mDrawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
    mImageView.setDrawable(mDrawable);
}

answered Jul 23 '15 at 16:55

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Not the solution for what he is asking – IIRed-DeathII Oct 07 '15 at 14:32

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 09 '18 at 07:09

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here's another one:

Drawable drawable = RoundedBitmapDrawableFactory.create(context.getResources(), bitmap);

answered Apr 09 '18 at 07:09

Desolator

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score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Feb 10 '22 at 16:27

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For Kotlin users:

Kotlin has a function for converting Bitmap to BitmapDrawable:

Bitmap.toDrawable(resources)

answered Feb 10 '22 at 16:27

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amosu dona · Answer 11 · 2023-06-11T13:55:36.597

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convert Bitmap To Drawable in Sketchware app using direct block

    android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable d = new android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);

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answered May 29 '19 at 16:35

amosu dona

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