Question

I have a TextView. I want to change/convert TextView into an image file and store it on external storage. Is this possible? How?

Answer 1

The general approach you will want to take is to …

• Create your TextView
• Set its text, font, etc. as you like
• Create a Bitmap object with the same dimensions as your TextView
• Create a new Canvas from your Bitmap
• Call the TextView.Draw(Canvas) function to render it onto to the canvas
• Save the resulting Bitmap to a file

The Android documentation should be able to help you how to accomplish each of those sub-points.