Rotate R.drawable in kotlin

Question

I need to display wind direction readings as arrows, original bmp is an arrow that is rotated to be 0° (pointing upwards), i have a for loop in which i can retrieve degrees from database and i can set drawable to my mpandroidchart but i need to rotate that drawable.

 val jsonTemperatureData = JSONArray(result?.get(0))
 for (i in 0 until jsonTemperatureData.length()) {
     val item = jsonTemperatureData.getJSONObject(i)
     val reading_temperature = item.getString("reading_windspeed")
     val degrees= item.getString("degrees")

     yVals.add(Entry(hour.toFloat(), reading_temperature.toFloat(), ContextCompat.getDrawable(getApplicationContext(),R.drawable.direc)))
 }

How would i set float value from val degrees= item.getString("degrees") to R.drawable.direc inside this loop?

Sanket Vekariya · Answer 1 · 2020-01-13T09:36:24.030

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If you are using imageView, there is a property of it: rotation

if you have code similar to below:

<ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView"
        android:layout_width="60dp"
        android:layout_height="60dp"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"/>

below code works for me:

imageView.setImageDrawable(ContextCompat.getDrawable(getApplicationContext(),R.drawable.direc))
imageView.rotation = imageView.rotation + degrees.toFloat()

edited Jan 13 '20 at 09:36

answered Jan 13 '20 at 09:13

Sanket Vekariya

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I am setting drawable directly to mpandroidchart with: ContextCompat.getDrawable(getApplicationContext(),R.drawable.direc) – stacks Jan 13 '20 at 09:14
I am NOT using ImageView – stacks Jan 13 '20 at 13:01
May I have some specific view which you are using for UI ? – Sanket Vekariya Jan 13 '20 at 13:12
Have you found the solution? – Sanket Vekariya Mar 22 '20 at 09:31
i have posted it as a solution – stacks Mar 23 '20 at 11:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '20 at 09:15

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Rather than rotating the drawable, I would suggest you to rotate the ImageView.

Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
imageView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.MATRIX);   //required
val bounds: Any = imageView.getDrawable().getBounds()
matrix.postRotate( YOUR_ANGLE_GOES_HERE, bounds.width()/2, bounds.height()/2);
imageView.setImageMatrix(matrix);

or

mImageView.setRotation(YOUR_ANGLE_GOES_HERE) with API>=11

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answered Jan 13 '20 at 09:15

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Again, I am setting drawable directly to mpandroidchart line char so i need to rotate drawable. – stacks Jan 13 '20 at 09:16
Did you try [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/21376008/4370279) ? – theapache64 Jan 13 '20 at 09:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '20 at 13:15

I have found the solution, MPAndroidChart accepts only drawables as icons to their charts and i wanted to rotate that drawable (it would be easy if there were ImageViews).

So the solution was to convert drawable to bitmap, rotate that bitmap and then convert it back to drawable and set it as icon:

 val jsonTemperatureData = JSONArray(result?.get(0))
            for (i in 0 until jsonTemperatureData.length()) {
                val item = jsonTemperatureData.getJSONObject(i)
                val reading_temperature = item.getString("reading_windspeed")
                val reading_direction = item.getString("reading_winddirection")
                val hour = item.getString("hour")
                if(item.getDouble("maxspeed") > max)
                    max = item.getDouble("maxspeed")
                if(item.getDouble("minspeed")< min)
                    min = item.getDouble("minspeed")

                var icon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(applicationContext.getResources(),
                        R.drawable.direction0)
                val rotatedBitmap = icon.rotate(reading_direction.toFloat())

                var d: Drawable = BitmapDrawable(getResources(), rotatedBitmap)

                yVals.add(Entry(hour.toFloat(), reading_temperature.toFloat(), d))
            }

Rotate R.drawable in kotlin

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