Android: saving all the contents of a xml layout (imageviews, etc) as an image file

Question

I am creating an application that basically places a drawable into an imageView onClick. The result is a screen with a bunch of images on it in certain places. I want to save this screen as an image on the SD Card on the user's phone. I already know how to convert one imageView to a bitmap and save it to the SD Card, but how can I save all of the imageViews the way they are laid out on the screen as one file?

I have searched for an answer to this for several days. I was first thinking of programming in a button that would take a screenshot, but everything that I am reading says that you can only use screenshot on rooted phones.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3107527/android-save-view-to-jpg-or-png — thaussma, Apr 01 '12 at 01:15
You can find the solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5939987/android-take-screenshot-via-code . Also, please read the comments on the selected answer. — Arci, Apr 01 '12 at 01:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '12 at 04:15

Bitmap bitmap = findViewById(your_layout_id).getDrawingCache();
File file = new File(path_to_store_file);
if(!file.exists())    
    file.createNewFile();
try{
   FileOutputStream ostream = new FileOutputStream(file);
   bitmap.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 100, (OutputStream)ostream);
 } 
catch (Exception e) 
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Android: saving all the contents of a xml layout (imageviews, etc) as an image file

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