Taking screenshot programmatically doesnt capture the contents of surfaceVIew

Question

I have an app that I want to be able to capture a screenshot. The background of the layout is a surfaceView that shows video from the rear camera. The following code is able

Answer 1

According to the comment (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/jYjvm7ItpXQ) by an Android Framework engineer, SurfaceView isn't treated like a normal view:

The surface view is actually BEHIND your window, and a hole punched in the window for you to see it. You thus can put things on top of it in your window, but nothing in your window can appear behind it.

Since it's "BEHIND" the app window, consequently the drawing for the window's view wouldn't contain it. I suppose the only way then is to provide a method in your SurfaceView class to draw its own content to the provided Canvas/Bitmap.