How can I make a screenshot from background of a textview?

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How can I make a screenshot from a textview background? in JPEG.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2661536/how-to-programatically-take-a-screenshot-on-android — Illegal Argument, Jun 07 '14 at 03:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '14 at 03:07

You can ask the view to draw itself on a canvas. That's probably the simplest method.

Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(targetView.getWidth(),
                   targetView.getHeight(),
                   Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas c = new Canvas(b);
targetView.draw(c);

See http://arpitonline.com/blog/2012/07/17/capturing-bitmaps-of-views-in-android/

How can I make a screenshot from background of a textview?

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