Take a screen at your device:
Bitmap screen;
View v1 = MyView.getRootView();
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
screen= Bitmap.createBitmap(v1.getDrawingCache());
v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
If you're having ScrollView as root view then:
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
RelativeLayout root = (RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_main, null); //RelativeLayout is root view of my UI(xml) file.
root.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap screen= getBitmapFromView(this.getWindow().findViewById(R.id.relativelayout)); // here give id of our root layout (here its my RelativeLayout's id)
Here is the getBitmapFromView() method:
public static Bitmap getBitmapFromView(View view) {
//Define a bitmap with the same size as the view
Bitmap returnedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(), view.getHeight(),Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
//Bind a canvas to it
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(returnedBitmap);
//Get the view's background
Drawable bgDrawable =view.getBackground();
if (bgDrawable!=null)
//has background drawable, then draw it on the canvas
bgDrawable.draw(canvas);
else
//does not have background drawable, then draw white background on the canvas
canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
// draw the view on the canvas
view.draw(canvas);
//return the bitmap
return returnedBitmap;
}
It will display entire screen including content hidden in your ScrollView.
Now that we have our bitmap screen let's save it to pdf (you have to download itextpdf-5.3.2.jar file and attach in your project..)
private static String FILE = "mnt/sdcard/invoice.pdf"; // add permission in your manifest...
try
{
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(FILE));
document.open();
ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
screen.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, stream);
byte[] byteArray = stream.toByteArray();
addImage(document,byteArray);
document.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
private static void addImage(Document document,byte[] byteArray)
{
try
{
image = Image.getInstance(byteArray);
}
catch (BadElementException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (MalformedURLException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
// image.scaleAbsolute(150f, 150f);
try
{
document.add(image);
} catch (DocumentException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Haven't tested anything. Here are all the sources I used: source1, source2, source3.
