How I use the image of a screenshot?

Question

I want to use the code of this link: How to take a screenshot and share it programmatically to take screenshots of my application. But I want the picture which is produced to use it to change my background, like this Layout.setBackgroundResource(resid). How I can do this? Where I will find the image's path to use it to change Background?

Answer 1

First you need the view you want a screen shot of:

View anyView = findViewById(R.id.anyView);

Then use this method to take a screenshot:

public Bitmap screenShot(View view) {
    Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(),
            view.getHeight(), Config.ARGB_8888);
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
    view.draw(canvas);
    return bitmap;
}

like this:

Bitmap screenshot = screenShot(anyView);

Bitmaps can't be set as a background image so lets convert it to a drawable:

Drawable drawableScreenshot = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), screenshot);

Now set it to be the View background:

anyView.setBackgroundDrawable(drawableScreenshot);