Clip part of ImageView and display it somewhere else?

Question

I have an custom ImageView and I want to "clip" a section of it and then pass it to another activity. I've got the "passing to another Activity" part via a Bundle..but the clipping part has me stumped. I've tried something based on this question: Android View.getDrawingCache returns null, only null

But I still end up with a null Bitmap (I am assuming I need the bitmap in order to then clip it and pass the clip to another Activity..this may be a false assumption). Here is my actual code:

view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
view.measure(MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED),MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));
view.layout(0, 0, view.getMeasuredWidth(), view.getMeasuredHeight())    ; 

    view.buildDrawingCache(true);
        view.buildDrawingCache();
        Bitmap bmap = view.getDrawingCache();
        view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
        Log.d("IMAGE","HEIGHT: "+bmap.getHeight());

This results in a null pointer exception at the last line. Suggestions?

is your view drawn on screen? – blessanm86 Feb 02 '12 at 04:02 — blessanm86, Feb 02 '12 at 04:02
Yes. At the point this is called, the view is visible. – David Hamilton Feb 02 '12 at 10:55 — David Hamilton, Feb 02 '12 at 10:55

Clip part of ImageView and display it somewhere else?

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