Bitmap to NinePatch to New Scaled Bitmap

Question

My problem is this:

I need to create a re-scaled bitmap created using a NinePatch.

My current system creates a Bitmap from a NinePatch file. This then gets fed into a NinePatch (or NinePatchDrawable). I then need to resize it and output to another Bitmap.

I have reviewed this and it helped quite a bit.

Here is my current code:

try {
        Bitmap bitmap1 = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(getAssets().open("gfx/head.9.png"));

        // Using NinePatch?
        NinePatch patch = new NinePatch(bitmap1, bitmap1.getNinePatchChunk(), null);
        // Or NinePatchDrawable?
        NinePatchDrawable patch = new NinePatchDrawable(bitmap1, bitmap1.getNinePatchChunk(), new Rect(), null);

        // Set dimensions from NinePatch and create new bitmap
        // Bitmap bitmap2 = ?
}
catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

public static Bitmap get_ninepatch(int id,int x, int y, Context context){
        // id is a resource id for a valid ninepatch

        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(
                context.getResources(), id);

        byte[] chunk = bitmap.getNinePatchChunk();
        NinePatchDrawable np_drawable = new NinePatchDrawable(bitmap,
                chunk, new Rect(), null);
        np_drawable.setBounds(0, 0,x, y);

        Bitmap output_bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(x, y, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(output_bitmap);
        np_drawable.draw(canvas);

        return output_bitmap;
    }

X and Y are how big you want the ninepatch to be, context is your application context so you can get your ninepatch resource located at id

Please Note if you intend to use this bitmap in OpenGL X and Y must be powers of 2