Question

In AIR/AS3 Flex Mobile for Android project.

How can I capture an “image” of whats visible on the view

then just save that image as anything like jpg/pdf to the SD card?

Basically a screenshot on Android using AS3.

Answer 1

private function getBitmapData( target:DisplayObject ) : BitmapData
{

   //target.width and target.height can also be replaced with a fixed number.
   var bd : BitmapData = new BitmapData( target.width, target.height );
   bd.draw( target );
   return bd;
}

Create the byte array using JPEGEncoder and save this to Your sd card. In some case if the width and height of the target is not working, You can use the getbounds method to get the bounds of the object and from the bounds take the width and height.