Android App - How to save a bitmap drawing on canvas as image? Check code?

Question

I tried to use the following codes to

1. Draw on canvas
2. Save the canvas on Image

Problem - When I try to save the image, it shows a null

Answer 1

MyDrawView

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Bitmap.Config;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Path;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.LruCache;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;

public class MyDrawView extends View {
    public Bitmap  mBitmap;
    public Canvas  mCanvas;
    private Path    mPath;
    private Paint   mBitmapPaint;
    private Paint   mPaint;


    public MyDrawView(Context c, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(c, attrs);

        mPath = new Path();
        mBitmapPaint = new Paint(Paint.DITHER_FLAG);

        mPaint = new Paint();
        mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
        mPaint.setDither(true);
        mPaint.setColor(0xFF000000);
        mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
        mPaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
        mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);
        mPaint.setStrokeWidth(9);

    }


    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
        mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        mCanvas = new Canvas(mBitmap);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, 0, 0, mBitmapPaint);

        canvas.drawPath(mPath, mPaint);


    }

    private float mX, mY;
    private static final float TOUCH_TOLERANCE = 4;

    private void touch_start(float x, float y) {
        mPath.reset();
        mPath.moveTo(x, y);
        mX = x;
        mY = y;
    }
    private void touch_move(float x, float y) {
        float dx = Math.abs(x - mX);
        float dy = Math.abs(y - mY);
        if (dx >= TOUCH_TOLERANCE || dy >= TOUCH_TOLERANCE) {
            mPath.quadTo(mX, mY, (x + mX)/2, (y + mY)/2);
            mX = x;
            mY = y;
        }
    }
    private void touch_up() {
        mPath.lineTo(mX, mY);
        // commit the path to our offscreen
        mCanvas.drawPath(mPath, mPaint);
        // kill this so we don't double draw
        mPath.reset();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        float x = event.getX();
        float y = event.getY();

        switch (event.getAction()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                touch_start(x, y);
                invalidate();
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                touch_move(x, y);
                invalidate();
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                touch_up();
                invalidate();
                break;
        }
        return true;
    }

    public Bitmap getBitmap()
    {
        //this.measure(100, 100);
        //this.layout(0, 0, 100, 100);
        this.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);  
        this.buildDrawingCache();
       Bitmap bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(this.getDrawingCache());   
        this.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);


    return bmp;
    }



    public void clear(){
        mBitmap.eraseColor(Color.GREEN);
        invalidate();
        System.gc();

    }

}

MainActivity

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Bitmap.Config;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.MeasureSpec;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.Toast;


public class MainActivity extends Activity 
{
    MyDrawView myDrawView;


    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       // myDrawView = new MyDrawView(this, null);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        myDrawView = (MyDrawView)findViewById(R.id.draw);
        Button button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);    
        button1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() 
        {
            public void onClick(View v)
            {       


                File folder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString());
                 boolean success = false;
                 if (!folder.exists()) 
                 {
                     success = folder.mkdirs();
                 }

                 System.out.println(success+"folder");

                 File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString() + "/sample.png");

             if ( !file.exists() )
             {
                   try {
                    success = file.createNewFile();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
             }

             System.out.println(success+"file");



             FileOutputStream ostream = null;
                try
                {
                ostream = new FileOutputStream(file);

                System.out.println(ostream);
                View targetView = myDrawView;

               // myDrawView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
               //   Bitmap save = Bitmap.createBitmap(myDrawView.getDrawingCache());
               //   myDrawView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
                // copy this bitmap otherwise distroying the cache will destroy
                // the bitmap for the referencing drawable and you'll not
                // get the captured view
               //   Bitmap save = b1.copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888, false);
                //BitmapDrawable d = new BitmapDrawable(b);
                //canvasView.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
               //   myDrawView.destroyDrawingCache();
               // Bitmap save = myDrawView.getBitmapFromMemCache("0");
               // myDrawView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
               //Bitmap save = myDrawView.getDrawingCache(false);
                Bitmap well = myDrawView.getBitmap();
                Bitmap save = Bitmap.createBitmap(320, 480, Config.ARGB_8888);
                Paint paint = new Paint();
                paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
                Canvas now = new Canvas(save);
                now.drawRect(new Rect(0,0,320,480), paint);
                now.drawBitmap(well, new Rect(0,0,well.getWidth(),well.getHeight()), new Rect(0,0,320,480), null);

              // Canvas now = new Canvas(save);
               //myDrawView.layout(0, 0, 100, 100);
               //myDrawView.draw(now);
                if(save == null) {
                    System.out.println("NULL bitmap save\n");
                }
                save.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, ostream);
                //bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, ostream);
                   //ostream.flush();
                    //ostream.close();
                }catch (NullPointerException e) 
                {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Null error", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }

                catch (FileNotFoundException e) 
                {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "File error", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }

                catch (IOException e) 
                {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "IO error", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }

            }
        });

    }


    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }
}

activity_main.xml

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