Masking a Drawable/Bitmap on Android

Question

I\'m currently looking for a way to use a black and white bitmap to mask the alpha channel of another bitmap or Drawable on Android. I\'m curious as to what the best way to

Answer 1

I got it working, so it's something like this

    // we first same the layer, rectF is the area of interest we plan on drawing
    // this will create an offscreen bitmap
    canvas.saveLayer(rectF, null, Canvas.MATRIX_SAVE_FLAG
            | Canvas.CLIP_SAVE_FLAG | Canvas.HAS_ALPHA_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG
            | Canvas.FULL_COLOR_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG
            | Canvas.CLIP_TO_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG);

    // draw our unmasked stuff
    super.draw(canvas);
    // We same a layer again but this time we pass a paint object to mask
    // the above layer
    maskPaint = new Paint()
    maskPaint.setColor(0xFFFFFFFF);
    maskPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY));

    canvas.saveLayer(rectF, maskPaint,
            Canvas.MATRIX_SAVE_FLAG | Canvas.CLIP_SAVE_FLAG
                    | Canvas.HAS_ALPHA_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG
                    | Canvas.FULL_COLOR_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG
                    | Canvas.CLIP_TO_LAYER_SAVE_FLAG);
    // we draw the mask which is black and white. In my case
    // I have a path, and I use a blurPaint which blurs the mask slightly
    // You can do anti aliasing or whatever you which. Just black & white
    canvas.drawPath(path, blurPaint);
    // We restore twice, this merges the results upward
    // as each saveLayer() allocates a new drawing bitmap
    canvas.restore();
    canvas.restore();