converting drawable resource image into bitmap

Question

I am trying to use the Notification.Builder.setLargeIcon(bitmap) that takes a bitmap image. I have the image I want to use in my drawable folder so how do I con

Answer 1

Drawable myDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.logo);
Bitmap myLogo = ((BitmapDrawable) myDrawable).getBitmap();

Since API 22 getResources().getDrawable() is deprecated, so we can use following solution.

Drawable vectorDrawable = VectorDrawableCompat.create(getResources(), R.drawable.logo,  getContext().getTheme());
Bitmap myLogo = ((BitmapDrawable) vectorDrawable).getBitmap();