I am trying to save the profile picture from Google login, and am kind of a noob at this, so I am doing it in a rather round-about way. There is likely a better way to do this, and if you know it please let me know. But I think there is an unasked question in my round-about way. SO - here we go.
String profilePicUrl = googleSignInAccount.getPhotoUrl().toString();
ImageView intermediaryIV = (ImageView)
findViewById(R.id.intermediary);
Glide.with(this).load(profilePicUrl).into(intermediaryIV);
ColorDrawable drawable = (ColorDrawable) intermediaryIV.getDrawable();
Bitmap toSaveBitmap = drawable.get; //??
savePicToInternalStorage(toSaveBitmap)
The Glide api (https://github.com/bumptech/glide) loads the image from google into an imageView, and then I grab the drawable from the imageview. But in this case I don't get a normal bitmapDrawable I get a colorDrawable which does not contain a .toBitmap() function. Which causes me a problem because I need to save a bitmap.
So the question is can I convert a colorDrawable to a bitmap?
Also, if you have a better way to save an image from google, would you link me to that in the comments? We can leave the actually post answer to the main question.