let's suppose I have an ImageView, Grid or whatever control. What I want to do is take a screenshot of what's behind this control, let's say another controls that hold a background image or anything there could be. Is there any way I could do this? I thought of the getDrawingCache(); method but that would take the top control too.
I want to do this so I can make the blurry transparent effect of what is behind of my top controls. I already have a blurring method, I just need to take the exact picture of the background. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
You can use the getDrawingCache() method on any view, so if you have a reference to your background view it should work with something like this:
<your background view>.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap contentBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(<your background view>.getDrawingCache());
<your background view>.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
The contentBitmap should now contain a bitmap of what was in that view.