Question

i have to take something like a screenshot in my android application. It is not a screenshot, it should be a “viewshot”. It is about to render the complete content view on a bitmap.

I have found the solution to render the content view of the activity on a bitmap, but if the content view is bigger than the activity, it is only the visible part which gets drawn onto the bitmap.

Does anybody have a solution for this, or some ideas what to google?

Thanks

Answer 1

The content view is never “bigger than the activity”, by definition.

The content view may be scrollable, but most scrollable things are either AdapterViews or use a tile mechanism (e.g., MapView), none of which are rendered until they are scrolled into a visible position. There is no stock way to make a “viewshot” of things that have not been rendered. You are welcome to create your own AdapterViewShotter that iterates over the items in the Adapter, captures each to a Canvas, and stitches the lot together into a huge image.