Question

I want to get the bitmap that is drawn when a textview is displayed but without displaying the textview in the activity. something like this:

TextView t = new TextView(this);
t.forceToDrawItself();
Bitmap b=t.getViewBitmap();

how is this possible?

Answer 1

View#draw(Canvas) will draw the entire view into the given Canvas. You can use the constructor Canvas(Bitmap) to create a Canvas that draws into the given Bitmap.

Create a bitmap of the desired size with Bitmap#createBitmap(int, int, Bitmap.Config), wrap it in a canvas, and pass it to your view’s draw method.