Question

i would like to know whether is it possible to merge several images to form one complete image. For my case, is a floor plan that is split in 18 small images and i would like to merge them into one. I had one idea but not sure whether is it workable. My idea is this:

I would first place the top left most image first, with the x and y coordinates as (0,0).
Next for the subsequent images (right/bottom of this first image), using the width and height of the image, i would find out the coordinates where the next image would be placed. Doing this i presume would required 18 ImageView to achieve that.

Btw, these 18 images are .gif format and so do i need to like convert them to Bitmap or something before i can display them using ImageView?

Answer 1

You could merge the images to a bigger images by drawing the small images to a canvas associated with the resulting big bitmap

Canvas c=new Canvas(result_bitmapenter);

and then draw your small images onto the canvas

c.drawBitmap(small,...);

But that might not be the best way as big images eat lots of memory – perhaps you should concider dynamic loading instead of merging then