Question

I’ve currently been thinking about how I could register only touch events on the visible (non-transparent) parts of a .PNG image.

-I’ve been testing around with AndEngine and it seems they have multiple options: I’ve tried any I could find to no avail.

-I could very possibly create my own method of checking a given touched area’s transparency I suppose, but not sure how much work/overhead that might create with 15-20 objects on screen being able to be touched..

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

One simple way to do it would be to grab the the pixel color at the touch location. Then you can check if the pixel is transparent:

int color = Bitmap.getPixel(x,y); // x and y are the location of the touch event in Bitmap space
int alpha = Color.getAlpha(color);
boolean isTransparent = (alpha==0);

Note: Depending on how you implement your touch listener will might need to convert the x,y location of the touch event to the x,y coordinates of the image view.