How do you get the RGB values from a Bitmap on an Android device?

Question

I want to get RGB values of bitmap in android but I cant do this so far. My aim is to obtain RGB values for each pixel of bitmap. Is there any specific function for android

Answer 1

Arbitrary Bitmap Color Handling

You can read about the various Color methods here that will extract the components of color from a pixel int.

You might want to apply a filter to the bitmap, and return a byte array. Otherwise, you can cut this example down to the for-loop and roll through the pixels generating your array of bytes.

private byte[] rgbValuesFromBitmap(Bitmap bitmap)
{
    ColorMatrix colorMatrix = new ColorMatrix();
    ColorFilter colorFilter = new ColorMatrixColorFilter(
            colorMatrix);
    Bitmap argbBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap.getWidth(), bitmap.getHeight(),
            Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(argbBitmap);

    Paint paint = new Paint();

    paint.setColorFilter(colorFilter);
    canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, paint);

    int width = bitmap.getWidth();
    int height = bitmap.getHeight();
    int componentsPerPixel = 3;
    int totalPixels = width * height;
    int totalBytes = totalPixels * componentsPerPixel;

    byte[] rgbValues = new byte[totalBytes];
    @ColorInt int[] argbPixels = new int[totalPixels];
    argbBitmap.getPixels(argbPixels, 0, width, 0, 0, width, height);
    for (int i = 0; i < totalPixels; i++) {
        @ColorInt int argbPixel = argbPixels[i];
        int red = Color.red(argbPixel);
        int green = Color.green(argbPixel);
        int blue = Color.blue(argbPixel);
        rgbValues[i * componentsPerPixel + 0] = (byte) red;
        rgbValues[i * componentsPerPixel + 1] = (byte) green;
        rgbValues[i * componentsPerPixel + 2] = (byte) blue;
    }

    return rgbValues;
}