Take Screenshot of SurfaceView

Question

Am developing a simple camera app. I have code that takes screenshot of the whole activity and writes it to the Sd card. the problem is that the Surfaceview returns a black

Answer 1

If your situation allows it, using a TextureView instead of a SurfaceView will make this problem a lot easier to solve. It has a method getBitmap() that returns a Bitmap of the current frame on the TextureView.